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From: musgrave-forest@cs.yale.edu (F. Ken Musgrave)
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Subject: Re: Reality?? (was Viewer-Centered Graphics)
Keywords: perception, perspective, maps, realism, physics, mumbo-jumbo
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Date: 26 Mar 91 14:13:27 GMT
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>In article <1991Mar6.220940.8400@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
>
>This difference was one of the reasons Plato called artists liars: the
>real nature of objects does not change with your point of view, reality
>persists, appearances change.

  From this argument it would follow that, in the practice of computer
graphics, modelling is truth; rendering is lying.	

  Draw your own conclusions.

							Ken
-- 
"... this easy, indifferent sword must be chance--aye, chance, free will,
and necessity--no wise incompatible--all interweavingly working together."
						-Herman Melville
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