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From: peterh@tekirl.TEK.COM (Peter Hildebrandt)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Ray Tracing Jell-O Brand Gelatin
Message-ID: <1187@tekirl.TEK.COM>
Date: 5 Mar 88 02:02:30 GMT
References: <20312@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <23187@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1184@tekirl.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: peterh@tekirl.UUCP (Peter Hildebrandt)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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In article <1184@tekirl.TEK.COM> peterh@tekirl.UUCP (Peter Hildebrandt) writes:
>
>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.

A number of people have sent me mail, and boy did *I* get taken in!  I knew
I recognized the name Paul Heckbert from somewhere, but for some reason I 
didn't make the connection that *he* had written the Jell-o article.  

Blush. 

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Peter Hildebrandt
Tek Labs
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