Comments on: The Origin of the Inimitable Icons.

By: Rich D.

Rich D. — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:11:12 +0000

I had to keep an old Power Mac G4 with Mac OS 9 around, so I could re-render some of Cesar’s old icons (hard drives, etc.) in higher resolution for Leopard. Infini-D had a max render size of 2000×2000, and crashed every 20 minutes.

It was impressive to discover how much thought had gone into the design process for the original icon set, and to see how icons evolved as skill sets on the team changed over time.

By: Aku

Aku — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:03:00 +0000

All that just for an icon… Astonishing.
BTW the links to the Human Interface Guidelines are broken.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:33:03 +0000

The upper screenshot looks like Cinema 4D, and apparently is still used by Apple today. Bobby Andersen mentioned it in his C4 talk.

The lower screenshot is Infini-D 4.5; you can sort of make it out from the upper right text. This was the last version before it was sold off and incorporated into Carrera.

Wow! What a find! Where did you find all of this?

By: Hay

Hay — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:22:56 +0000

I’m wondering what the package is they made the icons in. It certainly isn’t 3D Studio (that was never released for Mac afaik), so maybe it’s Maya?

@Leo Mancini: you can disable the new dock by opening a Terminal and executing this command:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock

By: oomu

oomu — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:01:07 +0000

and I still love the dock, whatever the naysayer say.

the dock is very visual, easy to use and beautiful to see.

and I still prefer the dock on the left/right side.