11 May
2017
11 May
'17
10:09 a.m.
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:53 AM, Shoppa, Tim via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I grew up with X-Y scope displays, their associated
electrostatic printers, and Calcomp pen plotters. To draw letters and symbols on these, we
used Fortran libraries driven by data tables to make "Hershey Characters".
I came along later and started with rasterized character displays
(40x25) before I got my hands on rasterized graphic displays (up to
320x200 in the early days), but I did occasionally get some time on a
PDP-8 with a Tektronix 4010 terminal, and always did like the look of
vectorized text.
This year, the Hershey Font system and libraries turn
50 years old:
https://books.google.com/books/about/Calligraphy_for_computers.html?id=qFFC…
Cool.
A little more context:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_fonts
Google Books
https://books.google.com/books/about/Calligraphy_for_computers.html?id=qFFC…
Not remembering these by name, I went digging and found the original
1967 paper...
https://archive.org/details/hershey-calligraphy_for_computers
I'm astounded at how much effort went into rendering Japanese.
-ethan