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From: jeffry@bu-pub.bu.edu (Jeffry Nimeroff)
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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 16:11:56 GMT
References: <1991Mar6.220940.8400@nas.nasa.gov> <3124@charon.cwi.nl> <1991Mar21.212552.23212@tfic.bc.ca> <29686@cs.yale.edu>
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In article <29686@cs.yale.edu>, musgrave-forest@cs.yale.edu (F. Ken Musgrave) writes:
|> >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
|> F. Kenton ("Ken") Musgrave	musgrave@yale.edu	(203) 432-4016

	So radiosity is better than ray-tracing..... :-)

-Jeff Nimeroff
Boston University
Computer Science Department

soon to be...

-Jeff Nimeroff
University of Pennsylvania
Computer and Information Sciences