Quantel Paintbox
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The Quantel Paintbox was a dedicated computer graphics workstation for composition of broadcast television video and graphics. Its design emphasizes the studio workflow efficiency required for live news production. Following its initial launch in 1981, it revolutionised the production of television graphics.
The first generation Paintbox was principally custom-designed hardware, while the second generation V-Series introduced in 1989 was able to take advantage of general purpose computer hardware combined with custom hardware elements. In 2002, the generationQ series of products introduced the last stand-alone Paintbox and the QPaintbox software for PCs.[1] Eventually, Paintbox became a feature of Quantel's other, more powerful editing, media management and post-production products.[2]
It was used by six artists and designers, including David Hockney and Richard Hamilton, to create original artwork in the 1986 BBC series Painting with Light.
In the late 1980s Quantel embarked on lawsuits against the Adobe "Photoshop" software package and the Spaceward Graphics "Matisse" system in an attempt to protect patented aspects of the Paintbox system. They won the initial case against Spaceward in 1990, but finally lost the case against Adobe in 1997 following depositions and demonstrations by a number of Computer Graphics pioneers including Alvy Ray Smith and Dick Phillips. Richard Shoup ported his 1973 paint program Superpaint to Windows for demonstration purposes, and was able to demonstrate that Superpaint had particular features before Quantel's Paintbox. Shoup's port is available for download from his personal website.[3]
The cover for The Miracle, rock band Queen's studio album was created on a Quantel Painbox in 1989.
[edit] External links
- Alvy Ray Smith - Digital Paint Systems. Includes information about the Quantel/Adobe lawsuit.
- Computer Graphics in Court: The Adobe/Quantel Case
[edit] References
- ^ Pank, Bob. "The Digital Fact Book Converged media 20th anniversary edition" (PDF). http://www.quantel.com/repository/files/library_DigitalFactBook_20th.pdf. Retrieved 2009-11-06.
- ^ "Pablo grading and finishing for HD, 2K, 4K and stereo3D" (PDF). http://www.quantel.com/repository/files/brochures_Pablo_nab08.pdf. Retrieved 2009-11-06.
- ^ "The SuperPaint System (1973-1979)". http://www.rgshoup.com/prof/SuperPaint/. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
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