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From: ksbooth@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Kelly Booth)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Star Trek II graphics: "The Genesis Effect"
Keywords: star trek graphics genesis
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Date: 14 Oct 88 18:45:34 GMT
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In article <2537@pixar.UUCP> loren@pixar.UUCP (Loren Carpenter) writes:
>In article <2908@utah-gr.UUCP> u-jmolse%sunset.utah.edu.UUCP@utah-gr.UUCP (John M. Olsen) writes:
>   >But I would have to agree with Dave that the Genesis Effect doesn't look
>   >like a fractal system.  Neither is "white sand", a particle system picture
>   >of some desert grass that is on the cover of Geometric Modeling, by Michael
>   >E Mortenson.  I don't know where the picture came from originally.
>
>"White Sands" was made by Alvy Ray Smith at Lucasfilm in about 1983.  I know,
>because I was looking over his shoulder.
>
>			Loren Carpenter

The paper "Plants, fractals, and formal languages" by A. R. Smith in the
SIGGRAPH '84 proceedings (Computer Graphics, 18:3, July 1984, pp. 1-10)
has a copy of "White Sands" on page 10.  From the caption, it seems to
be a "mixed media" work of fractals (or graftals) and particle systems.
Read the paper for the complete story.

Did you look inside the book for a credit?  Most reputable authors request
permission to use images and then cite the artist/scientist who created the
images.  The credit is probably there if you looked.