Berkeley Systems

Tomoya Ikeda performed a key section in the evolution of After Darkish’s world smartly-known Flying Toasters. The original prototype work used to be carried out by Jack Eastman, at which length Ikeda-san used to be introduced in as a contractor to attract the closing 1-bit work. Later versions of the toasters were drawn in color by Igor Gasowski and at last rendered and bright in 3D by Jarir Maani.

Enzan-Hoshigumi

We want to bolt motivate in time rather, to the days sooner than Ikeda-san used to be living in California. When he used to be in Japan he worked for an organization known as Enzan-Hoshigumi. The company title is most advantageous translated as “Computer Gangsters”.

They turned correctly identified on the early Macintosh scene by providing collections of extraordinarily pleasant effective Clipart in a conventional Eastern model, Dennou Emaki (電脳絵巻 or Cyber Declare Scroll), largely drawn by Ikeda-san. And moreover their MacCalligraphy kit that allowed drawing of conventional Eastern calligraphy the usage of simplest the Macintosh mouse, with the thickness and subtleties of every stroke being managed simplest by the velocity and rush of the mouse.

MacWorld EXPO

The 1988 MacWorld EXPO held in San Francisco used to be attended by over 45,000 participants and hosted over 400 displays, view to be one of which used to be Enzan-Hoshigumi. The contemporary topic of the time used to be the contemporary, color and expandable Macintosh II. Photos courtesy of Izumi Okano.

The Boston MacWorld EXPO tournament later that 300 and sixty five days moreover had an Enzan-Hoshigumi stand, accompanied by a 7×12 ft multi-panel Eastern folding camouflage created from a sheet-by-sheet meeting of thermal prints from an enlarged Tomoya Ikeda PixelPaint illustration. The camouflage used to be later confirmed at the “imagine” tournament organised at Boston Computer Museum by Verbum Journal.

Chosen works

“The Golden Dragon” drawn in 1987 by Tomoya Ikeda (Enzan-Hoshigumi Co., Ltd.) the usage of PixelPaint, the first fleshy-color paint software for the Macintosh.

Mandala

From 1988 Ikeda-san turned fervent on mandala — the circular figures representing the universe in Hindu and Buddhist symbolism — and would walk on to attract a form of them. A handful comprise survived in print, scattered across Ma