raytracing and stuff

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2 total messages Started by john Wed, 27 Aug 1986 20:38

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Author: john
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1986 20:38

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I'm sorry that I didn't reply to everybody's mail complaining about
my truncated posting, it has just been reposted as three separate
articles to net.sources. everything should be intact (including susie).
(I don't know why there is such a demand, but there is.)

Anyway, i didn't have a chance to go to siggraph, being just a hobbyist,
but I get to go next year (see ya in anaheim.)
I have had a chance to see some of the old siggraph stuff, and in the
coming week or so will have a chance to see some of the newer stuff at
a computer animation festival. I did manage to get my greedy little paws
on some of the course notes from the ray tracing lectures. from what
few conventions there are, it doesn't seem that my program follows many
of them. (this was the first reading I had done at all on any of this,
and I'm realizing just how good some of this stuff really is.)
Anyway- now that graphics has become an art form, should we be trying to
make it real art, or should we be content with stuff that looks pretty.
(i know, I'm one to talk. after all, what can you do with just balls?)

f

Re: raytracing and stuff

#1409

Author: Jonathan Leech
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1986 17:04

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In article <250@net1.UCSD.EDU>, fritzz@net1.UCSD.EDU (john) writes:
> Anyway- now that graphics has become an art form, should we be trying to
> make it real art, or should we be content with stuff that looks pretty.
> (i know, I'm one to talk. after all, what can you do with just balls?)

    One of the essays in the SIGGRAPH Art Show booklet this year
said something like "computer graphics is obviously unsuited for
representational art". Perhaps this explains why I don't understand
or like 95+% of computer graphics ``art'' (i.e. the stuff this looks
like random numbers were driving a plotter).

    The graphics group at Caltech interacts with students from the
Pasadena Art Center College of Design on occasion; they teach industrial
design art. Sometimes when particularly horrible errors occur in our
rendering programs the ACCD students comment on how wonderful it looks.
There is an obvious and probably impassable gap between the researchers
who are trying to attain realism of form, motion, and rendering, and
the artists who have no use for it.

    -- Jon Leech (...seismo!amdahl!jon)
    UTS Products / Amdahl Corporation
    __@/

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