David Buck escreveu:
> Bozo was indeed in DKBTrace.  In fact, it was one of the first 
> procedural textures to be implemented in DKBTrace.  I wasn't, however, 
> responsible for the name.  It came from a technical paper presented at 
> SIGGRAPH '84 by Ken Perlin called "An Image Synthesizer".  He showed a 
> torus with a bozo texture on it.
> 
> That paper served as a huge inspiration for me to create the original 
> textures in DKBTrace and later POVRay.
> 
> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=325247
> http://luthuli.cs.uiuc.edu/~daf/courses/ComputerGraphics/Week8/Shading.pdf

Those old-time researchers surely had about as much sense of humor as 
open-source developers. ;)  Today it's all enterprisey, long-named and 
no-fun in a suit...

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