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

[Sampo A Syreeni]

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.

Sampo Syreeni <decoy at iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university