At 5:08 PM -0700 on 10/24/00, Tim May wrote:
Nonsense, on at least a couple of accounts.
Maybe, but I was talking, and not too clearly, it seems, about modeling the motion of things, and not ray-tracing, which I was not even thinking about, frankly. Morphing, it seems to me, was done just because they could, and as a result, it is the most aggregious of this cartoon physics nonsense. I think, eventually, the public may get tired of camera-trick physics as a movie plot, which, I guess, is probably more likely to happen sooner than prying our schools out of the hands of innumerate socialists any time soon. Anyway, this topic has been beaten like a dead horse, and I'm done with wandering around in the minutae. Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'