<s>
SuperPaint	B-Application
was	O
a	O
pioneering	O
graphics	B-Application
program	I-Application
and	O
framebuffer	B-Algorithm
computer	O
system	O
developed	O
by	O
Richard	O
Shoup	O
at	O
Xerox	O
PARC	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SuperPaint	B-Application
was	O
among	O
the	O
earliest	O
uses	O
of	O
computer	O
technology	O
for	O
creative	O
artworks	O
,	O
video	O
editing	O
,	O
and	O
computer	O
animation	O
,	O
all	O
of	O
which	O
would	O
become	O
major	O
areas	O
within	O
the	O
entertainment	O
industry	O
and	O
major	O
components	O
of	O
industrial	O
design	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SuperPaint	B-Application
had	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
capture	O
images	O
from	O
standard	O
video	O
input	O
or	O
combine	O
them	O
with	O
preexisting	O
digital	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SuperPaint	B-Application
was	O
also	O
the	O
first	O
program	O
to	O
use	O
now-ubiquitous	O
features	O
in	O
common	O
computer	O
graphics	B-Application
programs	I-Application
such	O
as	O
changing	O
hue	O
,	O
saturation	O
and	O
value	O
of	O
graphical	O
data	O
,	O
choosing	O
from	O
a	O
preset	O
color	O
palette	O
,	O
custom	O
polygons	B-General_Concept
and	O
lines	O
,	O
virtual	O
paintbrushes	O
and	O
pencils	O
,	O
and	O
auto-filling	O
of	O
images	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SuperPaint	B-Application
was	O
also	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
first	O
graphics	B-Application
programs	I-Application
to	O
use	O
a	O
graphical	B-Application
user	I-Application
interface	I-Application
and	O
was	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
earliest	O
to	O
feature	O
anti-aliasing	B-Algorithm
.	O
</s>
<s>
SuperPaint	B-Application
was	O
used	O
in	O
the	O
mid-1970s	O
to	O
make	O
custom	O
television	O
graphics	O
for	O
KQED-TV	O
in	O
San	O
Francisco	O
,	O
and	O
later	O
to	O
make	O
technical	O
graphics	O
and	O
animations	O
for	O
the	O
NASA	O
Pioneer	O
Venus	O
project	O
mission	O
in	O
1978	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Shoup	O
won	O
an	O
Emmy	O
Award	O
in	O
1983	O
,	O
and	O
an	O
Academy	O
Scientific	O
Engineering	O
Award	O
shared	O
with	O
Smith	O
and	O
Thomas	O
Porter	O
in	O
1998	O
,	O
for	O
his	O
development	O
of	O
SuperPaint	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
SuperPaint	B-Application
system	O
was	O
a	O
custom	O
computer	O
system	O
built	O
around	O
a	O
Data	B-Device
General	I-Device
Nova	I-Device
800	I-Device
minicomputer	B-Architecture
CPU	O
and	O
a	O
hand-wired	O
shift	B-General_Concept
register	I-General_Concept
framebuffer	B-Algorithm
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
memory	O
was	O
scattered	O
across	O
16	O
circuit	O
boards	O
,	O
each	O
loaded	O
with	O
multiple	O
2-kilobit	O
shift	B-General_Concept
register	I-General_Concept
chips	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
workable	O
,	O
this	O
design	O
required	O
that	O
the	O
total	O
framebuffer	B-Algorithm
be	O
implemented	O
as	O
a	O
307,200	O
byte	O
shift	B-General_Concept
register	I-General_Concept
that	O
shifted	O
in	O
synchronization	O
with	O
the	O
television	O
output	O
signal	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Rather	O
,	O
a	O
given	O
position	O
could	O
be	O
accessed	O
only	O
when	O
the	O
desired	O
scan-line	B-Algorithm
and	O
pixel	O
time	O
rolled	O
around	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
gave	O
the	O
system	O
a	O
maximum	O
latency	O
of	O
33	O
ms	O
for	O
writing	O
to	O
the	O
framebuffer	B-Algorithm
.	O
</s>
<s>
Also	O
included	O
in	O
the	O
SuperPaint	B-Application
configuration	O
was	O
an	O
8-bit	O
video	O
digitizer	O
,	O
and	O
direct	O
conversion	O
to	O
standard	O
NTSC	O
video	O
.	O
</s>
