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From: skinner@saturn.ucsc.edu (Robert Skinner)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Ray Tracing Jell-O Brand Gelatin
Message-ID: <2201@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 88 16:47:34 GMT
References: <20312@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <23187@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1184@tekirl.TEK.COM>
Organization: U.C. Santa Cruz, CIS/CE.
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Summary: Pay Attention!

In article <1184@tekirl.TEK.COM>, peterh@tekirl.TEK.COM (Peter Hildebrandt) writes:
> In article <23187@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> ph@degas.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Paul Heckbert) writes:
> >>\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.  
> 
> So lighten up, friend.
> 

Lighten up yourself.  

(You were at Siggraph, you should know.)  If you look closely you will
see that Paul Heckbert WROTE the ray-tracing Jello article and
PRESENTED it at Siggraph.  If you had read all of his article, you
could see that it was obviously tongue-in-cheek.  
(intensity = sin(R)+atanh(G)*log(B) !?!?!?, come on) 
I guess that Paul presumed he didn't need the smiley faces, because
people would be more alert.

While I'm talking about it, I thought that the Jello article was well done, and
the presentation well done and humorous.  I wonder though, if it
displaced anyone who would have presented a serious and valueable
paper.  A paper that someone worked hard on to finish by the Siggraph
deadline.  I also wonder if the same paper/presentation would have
been accepted if the author had not been well known and had not worked
for Pixar.

I enjoyed all the Jello stuff.  I just think that there was a more
appropriate place for it at Siggraph.  Its almost sure to start a
trend, what will be the selection criteria for humorous articles?

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Robert Skinner
skinner@saturn.ucsc.edu