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Legendary Apple engineer Bill Atkinson dead at 74

Monday June 9, 2025. 03:37 PM , from BoingBoing
Legendary Apple engineer Bill Atkinson dead at 74
Bill Atkinson, who died Thursday at 74, was an early engineer at Apple whose exceptional skill and ingenuity lives on in the fine details of graphic design. Given the limited resources of a Motorola 68000 CPU, he devised algorithms that could display rounded rectangles, render beautiful 1-bit dithered gradients and send ants marching. — Read the rest
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