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...Goodfriend, currently an Education School student, life is a series of images and impressions that fly by all too quickly, So at age 15 he decided to keep a diary--but not an ordinary one. A "graphic narrative" is what he calls it--a scrapbook, journal, memory book and sketchpad pasted one on top of another and rolled into a unique whole. He's been keeping them ever since that time nearly 50 years...
With a system called "Sketchpad," which he originated while a graduate student at M.I.T., a computer operator can draw a diagram of an electric circuit or a picture of something like an airplane wing, using an electronic "light pen" on a special screen...
This represents a tremendous saving of effort over the older method of setting up problems in specialized computer codes. To represent the same chart that could be drawn in a few lines with "Sketchpad" might take hundreds of coded instructions, and the computer's answers might also need laborious interpretation...
...Stolen Sketchpad. Capralos casts his sculptures in his own foundries When one was built a year ago on the island of Aegma, near Athens, workmen found ancient castings on the seaside site from a foundry believed to date from the 6th century B.C. "I was glad," says the white-haired artist, "that I am moving on the same grounds as my ancestors...