Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wucs1!wucfua!dinorah!mary
From: mary@dinorah.wustl.edu (Mary E. Leibach)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Sound tracing (Academic Snooty-ness)
Message-ID: <655@dinorah.wustl.edu>
Date: 5 Jan 89 21:22:50 GMT
Organization: Washington University (St. Louis)
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ksbooth@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Kelly Booth) writes:

+We are being flooded by a lot of amateur postings about ray tracing for
+sound.  This is not a new idea and it is not a new topic.  Most of the
+postings appear to be quite naive approaches.  There are commercial
+companies that have applied computer techniques to problems in
+acoustics for many years.  There are big bucks to be made in this
+field.  It is highly unlikely that a couple of hackers thinking about
+the problem for a few minutes will generate startling break throughs
+(possible, but not likely).

Gee, I started reading this group because I got VGA (I know, real primitive)
on my even more primitive PC/XT, and thought graphics was interesting and
wanted to learn more about it.  I know I have only got a lowly B.S. degree,
and I haven't written any major papers, but I thought this was a group for
anyone to learn and trade techniques.  And now you say you have to be a
professional (I AM a professional programmer) and make "big bucks".  Well
since I am not in the big leagues, so to speak, perhaps I should go back
to rec.arts.comics for my graphic techniques! :-)  After all, Wolverine has
some interesting methods of ray tracing people with his claws. :-) :-)
Talk about GRAPHIC violence! :-) :-) :-)

BTW, can someone recommend a good intro. book or two on graphics for an
AMATEUR who doesn't have the BIG BUCKS necessary to take a grad. course
in it right now.  I'd really like to learn some more.

	-Mary Leibach : Professional Programmer and Amateur Hacker
			And PROUD of it!