CDR: Re: Gort in granny-shades (was Re: Al Gore goes cypherpunk?)

[Tim May]

At 12:43 PM +0300 10/25/00, Sampo A Syreeni wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Tim May wrote:
>
>>suchlike. Fact is, "ray tracing" and various illumination models, and
>>Gouraud and Phong shading and all the rest...were NOT motivated by a
>>desire to model "*physics*."
>
>Yet now we have radiosity. And as you well know, illumination and rendering
>are just two parts of the process. We still have kinematics, which is
>probably the most abused part of the process, and the one designed to get
>plausible physics.

We had radiosity many, many years ago. And models for human motion, 
animal motion, and so on.

The point is not that physics-constraints are good things, the point 
is that most advanced graphics was _not_ developed for the sake of 
science and physics!

I was refuting Bob Hettinga's point about what advanced graphics were 
developed for.


--Tim May


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