Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!mhuxt!mhuxr!ulysses!unc!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) Newsgroups: net.books,net.ai Subject: Re: Hofstadter on computer music (fractals/graphtals) Message-ID: <1301@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-May-85 11:39:23 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.1301 Posted: Mon May 20 11:39:23 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 22-May-85 02:10:54 EDT References: <582@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> <195@u1100s.UUCP> <14174@watmath.UUCP> , <1548@dciem.UUCP> Organization: Duke U Comp Ctr Lines: 10 Xref: watmath net.books:1842 net.ai:2780 All this discussion of the accuracy of fractals in modelling landscapes reminds me of something I saw sometime ago in a graphics journal that quoted a Lucasfilm chap saying that fractals were "obsolete" in computer graphics (or something like that). They had supposedly come up with something "better" called "graphtals." Anybody familiar with this? -- D Gary Grady Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC 27706 (919) 684-3695 USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary