Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ut-sally!utah-cs!cai.utah.edu!b-davis From: b-davis%cai.utah.edu@utah-cs.UUCP (Brad Davis) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Ray Tracing Jell-O Brand Gelatin Message-ID: <5304@utah-cs.UUCP> Date: 3 Mar 88 02:09:22 GMT References: <20312@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <23187@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <3170@phri.UUCP> <1109@ogg.cgrg.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@utah-cs.UUCP Reply-To: b-davis%cai.utah.edu.UUCP@utah-cs.UUCP (Brad Davis) Organization: University of Utah VCIS Group Lines: 20 In article <1109@ogg.cgrg.ohio-state.edu> spencer@ogg.cgrg.ohio-state.edu (PROCEED) writes: >In article <3170@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes: >> >> The more interesting question is do you want to see this sort of >> drivel in a supposedly well-respected academic journal? If anybody doesn't >> know what I'm talking about, take a peek at the latest CACM. >> -- > >It first appeared in the 1987 ACM SIGGRAPH proceedings. Good for a chuckle >or two, but, like you said, not really what is expected of an academic >journal. How about "The Journal of Irreproducible Results"?? Oh, come on. The ACM seems to be the only professional organization (academic or otherwise) that can laugh at itself and its industry. Now if the IEEE could do something with its elections :-) P.S. Displaying realistic foods is difficult. Brad Davis {ihnp4, decvax, seismo}!cs.utah.edu!cai.utah.edu!b-davis b-davis@cs.utah.edu, b-davis@cai.utah.edu One drunk driver can ruin your whole day.