SuperPaint

SuperPaint was a pioneering graphics program and framebuffer computer system developed by Richard Shoup at Xerox PARC.

SuperPaint had the ability to capture images from standard video input or combine them with preexisting digital data.

Due to differences with management at PARC, Shoup left Xerox in 1979 to found graphics company Aurora Systems, while colleague Alvy Ray Smith went to work at New York Institute of Technology.

In 1980, Smith and others joined Industrial Light & Magic, George Lucas's movie special effects firm, and this group later founded Pixar.

This system had 311,040 bytes (303.75 KB) of memory and was capable of storing 640 by 480 pixels of data with 8 bits of color depth.