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@pixenapp

· Sep 20, 2016

Pixen 4 is now available in the Mac App Store with over 125 improvements and it's a free update for all users! itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixen/i

I found the original "pixel editor" project! here's the very first icon I drew in 2003 :D

and here's the actual project if anyone is interested (it's not that interesting) dropbox.com/s/akscnr4r9n18

Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

Oh man wait dude where’s the one where we literally had a matrix of pixel object instances?!?!

9:59 PM · Sep 20, 2016Twitter for Mac

ah no that came later... because it was faster somehow??

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how in the hell would that be faster

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we were all really confused at the time. In retrospect it was probably because…

…we didn't know how to turn off NSBitmapImageRep's really slow upscaling & drawing rects directly was faster

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there was also that period where we drew each pixel with its own NSBezierPath instance!!