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  A much higher quality reading rainbow copy was uploaded recently, so the lion kingdom was caught up again in the paint program.  That has remaned an enigma since lions 1st saw it in 1983.  It was a 1 off program written in the New York Institute of Technology computer graphics lab. Most of the hits for Images Paint System are a 1985 program for Amiga called Aegis Animator. Maybe it was derived from the 1983 program.  Then there's 1 hit for a siggraph presentation. https://dac.siggraph.org/pioneers-digital-art/ After some heroic network capture scraping & transcoding, a live stream was on the hard drive.  Helas, it was more about the art & the artist rather than the tool or what it ran on.   At 47:00 she revealed the program only achieved animation by cycling the color palette, hence why the oars looked like they did.  There's a video of clearly palette based animation in realtime. This one said it was marketed commercially, but still no scree...