Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!mtxinu!taniwha!paul From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Pixar's patent on stochastic image generation (really XOR cursor) Message-ID: <724@taniwha.UUCP> Date: 2 Nov 90 01:54:40 GMT References: <67527@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1990Oct29.203607.403@heitis1.uucp> <5520@labtam.labtam.oz> Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland Lines: 13 I've always thought that the XOR cursor patent was really hokey. Especially when you look at the history of the technique - it has been used by artists in their work for millenia .... however probably some of the best examples are by Seurat (he was painting pixels wasn't he :-) and some of the more modern more miminalist (especially the black and white) stuff. Paul -- Paul Campbell UUCP: ..!mtxinu!taniwha!paul AppleLink: CAMPBELL.P What most people don't realize is that those plastic cover slips that your 3 inch floppies come in are actually condoms for protecting your computer from harmfull computer viruses - practice safe computing ..... :-)