fragments from a late 18th century graphics API (wax-sealed epistles recovered from the wreck of a clipper):
"the Work shall be enumerated thus:"
"this frame the Work shall be a matter of Indices"
"i am most eager for you to begin the Work"
"as for the matter of the vertices, haste is of the utmost - spare only 16 Royal Bits for each"
"i remain your most faithful and humble servant"
@jplebreton "the Work shall make reference to illuminations numbered 1 through 12"
"the Work proceeds with great haste, but the illuminations contained therein are only 10 in number. The outcome of the Work is therefore unknowable."
@jplebreton ah, good old "A most excellent machinery for the facilitation of drawings posthaste, comprising methods of both describing the rendering of a perspective image and executing said rendering in the shortest amount of time that modern inventions afford us, including a small treatise on a novel formalism describing mathematically how to put Cartesian points into perspective."