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http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/doc/oscar.html
Yes, *the* Ken Perlin. Follow the "MAKING NOISE" link for an interesting talk.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
The question in today's corporate environment is not
so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
"what color is your nose?"
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Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote:
> http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/doc/oscar.html
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> Yes, *the* Ken Perlin. Follow the "MAKING NOISE" link for an interesting talk.
awesome bit of history. Also the isosurface and hair renders. :)
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Darren New wrote:
> Yes, *the* Ken Perlin.
What, you mean he *actually exists*??
It's always quite a shock to me to discover that new mathematics is
still being done in the 21st century. You tend to think of mathematics
is something the Acient Greeks solved several millennia ago...
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Invisible wrote:
> It's always quite a shock to me to discover that new mathematics is
> still being done in the 21st century.
Yeah, it was kind of funky for me to realize that I was playing with
fractals roughly right around the time that Mandelbrot invented them. I
think it was within ten years of the invention of fractals I was impressing
graphics professors by trying to figure out how to draw them, and I was in
college when he started playign with the Mandelbrot set.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
The question in today's corporate environment is not
so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
"what color is your nose?"
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Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> It's always quite a shock to me to discover that new mathematics is
>> still being done in the 21st century.
>
> Yeah, it was kind of funky for me to realize that I was playing with
> fractals roughly right around the time that Mandelbrot invented them. I
> think it was within ten years of the invention of fractals I was
> impressing graphics professors by trying to figure out how to draw them,
> and I was in college when he started playign with the Mandelbrot set.
I wonder what he thinks of the song about him...
--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Yeah, it was kind of funky for me to realize that I was playing with
> fractals roughly right around the time that Mandelbrot invented them. I
> think it was within ten years of the invention of fractals I was impressing
> graphics professors by trying to figure out how to draw them, and I was in
> college when he started playign with the Mandelbrot set.
I remember the time when it took literally hours to draw a low-resolution,
low-color Mandelbrot fractal.
Nowadays there are fractal programs which can zoom into the Mandelbrot set
basically in real-time at a resolution and color depth unimaginable at that
time. How have the times changed...
--
- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> I remember the time when it took literally hours to draw a low-resolution,
> low-color Mandelbrot fractal.
Mmm. 2 hours to render in MS QBASIC. In glorious 16-colour VGA. Wow.
> How have the times changed...
For the better, IMHO. ;-)
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"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
news:4b7c767c$1@news.povray.org...
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> Yes, *the* Ken Perlin. Follow the "MAKING NOISE" link for an interesting
> talk.
I've often imagined that Dan Rather's assailants were talking about Mr.
Perlin when inquiring of him about the frequency. No reason to believe
there's any link, I just think that it takes an already bizarre situation
and makes it more so, which appeals to me. :-D
--
Jack
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