Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uiucdcsb Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!carroll From: carroll@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Spinoffs Message-ID: <15700043@uiucdcsb> Date: Sat, 7-Dec-85 13:29:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.15700043 Posted: Sat Dec 7 13:29:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 10-Dec-85 06:40:10 EST References: <8512022243.AA18449@s1-b.arpa> Lines: 7 Nf-ID: #R:<8512022243.AA18449@s1-b.arpa>:-30:uiucdcsb:15700043:000:425 Nf-From: uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU!carroll Dec 7 12:29:00 1985 There's also the case where one of the first graphics house's (a company that produces computer graphics) got it's start in the military. They had been doing studies on radiation penetration (mostly neutrons) of various objects, when it occurred to them that if they just changed the system to dealing with light, the whole thing would do really good shaded 3-D images. Not very major, but just one more thing in the series.