[Indigo]<Griffin>griffin-videotape.memo!1

Griffin is a system for making color illustrations. Pictures in the system are in color, and composed of lines, curves, filled areas and text in multiple fonts. The data structure is defined so that the final copy can be rendered at high resolutions, such as that of a laser printer This eliminates the jaggies that occur at display resolutions. The Griffin videotape opens with a sequence of pictures being refreshed on a color monitor. I give a brief introduction to the system and show several examples of output from the system. All the sample output shown in this tape was produced on a Puffin printer.

After the closeup of the sample output, I describe the hardware, which is a dorado with both a standard alto display and a color monitor attached to it, a mouse and a keyboard. An online demonstration of the user interface follows. The user interface consists of displayed menus operated with the mouse. The demonstration describes most of the features of the system in the context of creating a new picture. The viewer sees alternating views of both the color and black and white display as the demonstration runs. The tape ends with closing remarks followed by a montage of pictures from the system.