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12 Aug 2024 03:21:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Displacement Maps  
From: Ken
Date: 30 Mar 1999 15:38:55
Message: <3701355B.A9A18328@pacbell.net>
Anthony Bennett wrote:
> 
> Thank you very much for reading the paper. You are too cool, Mr. Parker.
> Thanks for explaining this to me. It strikes me as odd that there is no way
> of doing this. I would think that you could change the space occupied by an
> object at a certain point by relating the displacement-mapped point and the
> object's normal at that same point. Or maybe I'm way off, I really don't know
> much about this stuff.

  I don't think that he said there is no way to impliment the function.
The amount of work it would take and the major changes to the core of
the program would make one hesitate to consider if it is worth it. If
there were other processes and functions that could be added that would
take advantage of the major changes it might jusify the work but for a
stand alone feature it seems doubtful.

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net


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