Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!tekcrl!tekirl!peterh
From: peterh@tekirl.TEK.COM (Peter Hildebrandt)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Ray Tracing Jell-O Brand Gelatin
Message-ID: <1184@tekirl.TEK.COM>
Date: 4 Mar 88 01:39:47 GMT
References: <20312@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <23187@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: peterh@tekirl.UUCP (Peter Hildebrandt)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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In article <23187@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> ph@degas.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Paul Heckbert) writes:
>In article <20312@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@.UUCP (Jim Frost) writes:
>>RAY TRACING JELL-O BRAND GELATIN
>>
>>\fINew technology is presented for imaging a restricted class of
>>dessert foods.\fR
>>...
>
>Please get this garbage off the net!  We're carrying on a serious technical
>discussion here and we don't need this sort of facetious drivel tying up the
>phone lines and wasting my tax dollars!!
>

I disagree with your pompus attitude.  I enjoyed reading this article as
much as I enjoyed the presentation of the same paper at Siggraph '87 during
the course on ray-tracing.

We computer graphics people often spend our day pouring over one boring 
paper after another, and occasionally need some relief from the tedium.
Comic relief should be as much a part of your day as eating lunch.  I'm
delighted that our company spends money to keep the research from going
to our heads.  So lighten up, friend.


Peter Hildebrandt
Tek Labs
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