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From: mae@vygr.Sun.COM (Mike Ekberg, Sun {GPD-LEGO})
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Appropriate messages (&Ray Tracing)
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Date: 24 May 89 22:59:03 GMT
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In article <8625@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> mplevine@phoenix.Princeton.EDU                (Marshall P. Levine) writes:
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>Let's stick to computer graphics!
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Isn't that one of the problems w/ porn {:->).

Seriously, tho, I much prefer the postings on moral implications
of c.g. then the endless requests for converting 
from TIFF -> SPIFF, or whatever.

For the budding Ray Tracers out there, I recommend getting a
a hold of the SIGGRAPH course notes, "Introduction to Ray Tracing",
or better yet, attending the class in Boston this year.

The notes I have for the '87 course includes a "Ray Tracing Bibliography"
by Paul Heckbert.

You might want to look at "A Reflection Model for Computer Graphics" 
Cook and Torrance, ACM Trans. Gr. 1,1(Jan. 1982) 7-24.




# mike (sun!mae), M/S 8-04
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