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So, you think Raytracing is something of the last 20 years or so ?
You might be wrong....
- Tjeb -
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Tjeb wrote:
> So, you think Raytracing is something of the last 20 years or so ?
> You might be wrong....
It seems you could even order an entire alchemy lab from Ikea ;)
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Am 19.12.2010 13:10, schrieb Christian Froeschlin:
> Tjeb wrote:
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>> So, you think Raytracing is something of the last 20 years or so ?
>> You might be wrong....
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> It seems you could even order an entire alchemy lab from Ikea ;)
There is evidence that wireframe 3D modelling tools must have been
around even since the 15th century (apparently, 2D plotters must have
been available back then, too):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Paolo_uccello%2C_studio_di_vaso_in_prospettiva_02.jpg
First raytraching machines apparently date back to the 16th century at
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/358durer.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Zentralperspektive_zeichnen.png
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On 19.12.2010 14:03, clipka wrote:
> First raytraching machines apparently date back to the 16th century at
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> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/358durer.jpg
Oh, you beat me... coming up with a link to that picture was also my
first thought after reading the original post!
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
Now playing: Party, Party (Eruption)
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On 19.12.2010 14:03, clipka wrote:
> First raytraching machines apparently date back to the 16th century at
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Once I usually went to a pub (to drink one pint or two) a few meters
from the house AD lived. I guess it was there where my interest in
raytracing did start.
But beware of the hare! (*)
-Ive
(*) in-joke, sorry, hard to get it for anyone who never lived in Nuremberg.
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Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfr de> wrote:
> Tjeb wrote:
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> > So, you think Raytracing is something of the last 20 years or so ?
> > You might be wrong....
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> It seems you could even order an entire alchemy lab from Ikea ;)
Oh, I know you can.
1 copy of "Alchemy and Other Pseudosciences": check!
1 copy of "Sorcerer's Stones: Causes and Remedies": check!
1 tweeker mentality: double check!
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