Tonight Writers Block Live passed one million pages viewed, only 35 days after the site launched. To celebrate, I decided to have a little trivia contest. I happen to be going through some old files this evening and came up with the perfect puzzler: this image of a frog. The first person to correctly identify the image, including its source and original purpose, will receive the fabulous prize of a $10 iTunes Music Store gift certificate.
Update – Apparently this is harder than I thought. Here’s two clues: I believe the image is from 1987, and it has something in common with this image -
We have a winner – Jim Everson gets the prize. The frog was a sample image created in 1987 for SuperMac’s excellent, but nearly forgotten, painting program called PixelPaint. Even today I’m amazed how good it looks for a 256 color image.
The second image is called Iceworld, and it was created by Ron Cobb, as an entry in a PixelPaint art contest. Ron was already a well known cartoonist and production designer at the time, but went on to even bigger things.
I put up the full images for anyone who’d care to glimpse into the ancient past of Mac graphics:
Supermac Frog
Iceworld by Ron Cobb
Apple Works website.
http://www.apple.com/appleworks/sciencereport.html
http://www.apple.com/appleworks/
Al – Good guess, but that’s not it.
http://www.frogdesign.com/client/apple/index.html
Since everyone is posting things with frog, why not
http://homepage.mac.com/randykokesch/Personal33.html
http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/bb_site_intro/secondary_modules/rainforests/FROG1.GIF
Andrew – it’s the same frog, but not the source of the image. BTW, the links in your other comment don’t seem to work. Mike
Something to do with the Sage iMac DV+?? (Kermit ad) :-p
or was it this frog on the Powermac G3?
http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~rxp/if/frog.jpg
It was a wallpaper.
http://images.macdesktops.com/images/1024×768/Frog1024×768.jpg
Any other hints?
Could this be it? The NeXT Cube which was designed by Frog Designs?
http://www.frogdesign.com/inside/timeline/timeline_1987.html
Or how bout in 1987 Apple bought Claris which lead to Apple Works?
iMac snow that came out after Sage that was advertised my Kermit the Frog?
The Frog keeps its eyes closed much of the time, much like audiences during boring keynote presentations. When it wakes up, it opens up its bright red eyes, which scares away its enemies — a phenomenon called “startle coloration”.
Red-eyed tree frogs, or at least stimulating ideas, are teeming around us, if we have the eyes to see them. Startling insights can come from anywhere – from nature, and even pictures of nature
Its about inspiring you to create a much more colorful presentation experience.
Mattion, C. 1987. Frogs and toads of the world. Facts on File Publication New York, NY.
Pyrom, J. 1987. Frogs and Toads: a complete introduction.
Sorry didn’t post the source.