Preface

I originally was a user of graphics systems. My formal education was as a chemical enginee, specializing in the simulation of chemical plants. However, when I graduated—in the early 1980s—there was no real interface other than a dump of numbers. As a user of such systems I always found that I could learn a lot more about a system if I could plot the results. If there was no plotting system, I wrote a routine to plot out data, using a line printer. The first company I worked for hired me to write the visual front end for its chemical plant simulation system. I was going to write a line-graphic interface using the built-in line characters found on the video adapter of most IBM-compatible PCs. This was practically state-of-the-art back then! ...

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