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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Mon Apr 8 01:33:38 1991
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 91 01:28:59 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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baarnold (William A Arnold):
To regularly kill, exile, torture, or brainwash the ranks of a small coalition of loosly aligned radical governments bent on making the world climate suitable for the Fanged Beast of Traffla when it comes from a nearby galaxy to claim its rightful place as Head Accountant so that our mission will not fail. All power to ASCOLARGBOMTWCSFTFBOTWICFANGTCIRPAHA!!!!
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jdmarko (Jim Davenport):
Login name: jdmarko In real life: The Glazed Donut
Nickname: Captain Care Bear
Office: Right Here Home phone: 555-1212
Directory: NYNEX Shell: /bin/seashell
On since Jan 1 78 23:10:32 on ttyp18 from m59-008-2:0
37 days 14 hours Idle Time
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jtidwell (Jenifer P. Tidwell):
The Siggraph `91 Conference On Computer Graphics and Interactive
Techniques will be held July 29 - August 2 in Las Vegas, NV. The following
contains selected portions of the recently released Siggraph '91
Preliminary Program:
[cont'd from yesterday -jt]
EXTENDED ABSTRACTS OF SELECTED TECHNICAL PAPERS
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Paper : Calculating Light Intensities in the Presence of a Participating Medium~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
During a seance, the participating medium draws forth the ghost of Omnibus
Graphics. We present a method of simulating the scattering/absorption of the
resulting apparition density.
Paper : The Fast Furrier Transform
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We introduce a method of rendering furry surfaces, and present results
of our experiments in producing a synthetic furry teddy bear.
In the same way a furrier strips the hide off an animal and wraps it
around a blue-haired woman, we stripped the hide off a koala bear and digitizedit so it could be mapped onto a synthetic bear model. To obtain the 3D
geometry of the teddy bear, we sliced the nude koala bear into serial sections,which were digitized. It is interesting to note that "rendering" can also mean"dismembering and grinding up".
Paper : Solutions for Unemployment in Graphics
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In 1974, Sutherland, et al. presented "A Characterization of Ten
Hidden-Surface Algorithms", which revealed how such algorithms could be unifiedas types of spatial sorting. Today's research solves the hidden-surface
problem with ray tracing, which was not one of the ten algorithms. Clearly,
ten researchers are out of work.
It is difficult for any laborer when he is replaced by a computer.
Supercomputers and special-purpose hardware have replaced the hidden-surface
researchers, and the result is grim. Gary Watkins and Robert Schumacker are
stuck in management positions. John Warnock, while not being forced to live inUtah, has been reduced to typesetting.
One of the ten unemployed researchers was the inventor of the depth
buffer. Fortunately, in 1986 he was pushed again to the forefront of research
when the depth buffer was used to render the facets of hemi-cubes as part
of the view-independent radiosity computation. The method works for static
scenes such as graphics programmers waiting for a radiosity method to finish.
For the other hidden-surface researchers, graphics has now developed a
severance plan in the form of the ZZBuffer. The ZZBuffer speeds up ray tracingby spatially sorting all objects with respect to an eyepoint. Thus, ZZBuffer
creation can be improved by using the ten hidden surface algorithms, giving tenresearchers a new lease on life.
======== Coming in Tomorrow's .plan: EVEN MORE EXTENDED ABSTRACTS =========
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lnp (Lisa N Paradis):
In the future:
Monday 4/8: fly out to Virginia for another interview with ERA
Tuesday 4/9: another report due for 6.033
Thursday 4/11: My brother's bday
questionnaire and finalized proposal due for 1.101
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Words-n-stuff for the day:
Today's secret word is oboist.
obo.ist \'o--.bo--*st, -b*-w*st\ n : an oboe player
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roopali (Roopali Garg):
Living in chicago:
5125 S. Kenwood Apt#605
Chicago, IL 60615
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sdmarrec (Stefan D Marrecau):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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sethg (Seth A. Gordon):
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 91 18:28:46 -0500
From: Usenet Oracle <oracle-vote@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Usenet Oracularity #288-06
Selected-By: bjb@hubcap.clemson.edu (BJ Backitis (KM4RB))
The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
Your question was:
> Why do my shirttails never stay tucked in?
And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
} Contrary to the impression given many members of the public like
} yourself, a shirt is *not* an inanimate object. They are *not* woven
} from cotton, polyester, rayon or blends as you have been told.
}
} Shirts are living, feeling beings. They capable of love and true
} affection-- witness the ``favorite shirt'' syndrome. A ``favorite
} shirt'' loves its owner, and accomodates him, making that shirt-owner
} more comfortable, and that owner reciprocates by wearing it more often.
}
} These creatures are harvested twice yearly, from their breeding grounds
} in northern Wisconsin on the shores of scenic Lake Superior. There they
} are captured in humane traps, lovingly folded, packaged and shipped to
} stores around the world, where people purchase them, believing them to
} be dead and tanned, like leather.
}
} But they are not dead. Having learned the mistake of violently clubbing
} animals to death for the purposes of clothing from the furrier industry,
} shirts live for long times in association with their human hosts. This
} is not widely know, since the shirt industry is well aware of the public
} revulsion that would result if people became aware that they were hosts
} to such a symbiot.
}
} This said, the reason your shirttails never stay tucked in is one of
} simple anatomy. A shirt (all species) has its nostrils in the
} shirttail. By tucking in your shirt, you are nearly suffocating the
} poor creature-- just *you* try going around trying to breathe through
} denim all day long. Thus, the creature works to slowly extricate its
} nostrils from the confines of your pants, until they are finally free--
} or you cruelly shove them back in again.
}
} Therefore, in the interests of humane treatment of animals, the Oracle
} recommends that you *never* tuck in your shirt. The Oracle doesn't.
}
} You owe the Oracle a breeding pair of flannel shirts.
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Date: Sun, 07 Apr 91 18:28:51 -0500
From: Usenet Oracle <oracle-vote@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Usenet Oracularity #288-10
Selected-By: nolan@helios.unl.edu (Harold the Foot)
The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
Your question was:
> If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
} Vegetarians.
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therese (Suntioinen Therese M.):
Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I want to be,
Eating breakfast or dinner,
or snack lunch in the hall,
Finland, Finland, Finland,
Finland has it all.
You're so sadly neglected,
And so often ignored,
A poor second to Belgium,
When going abroad.
Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I want to be,
Your mountains so lofty
Your treetops so tall
Finland, Finland, Finland
Finland has it all...
- Monty Python
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wizard (Hi-tech ceramic smile!):
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