A Graphics Guru Challenge...

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Mon Jun 18 14:08:22 UTC 2001


At 9:22 PM -0400 6/17/01, Sam Adams wrote:
>  >"Duane Maxwell" <dmaxwell at san.rr.com> is widely believed to have written:
>
>>>  I stand corrected - you're right.  What you can't do it use a simple
>linear
>>>  interpolating 2D texture mapper (like WarpBlt) to correctly map a 3D
>surface
>>>  in perspective.
>>>
>>Ah, well that would be after my time in the 3D graphics world. Back then
>>we just dreamt of machines that would do a thousand polygons a seconds
>>in plain colours.
>>
>>tim
>
>Colour! You had colour?  Luxury!  ;-)
>
>I still think BitBlt (even plain ol' black and white) is the coolest.
>Thanks, Dan.
>I'm a pretty imaginative guy, but its hard to imagine Squeak running on a
>Tektronix DVST (Direct View Storage Tube)!

Well, everything was slower then!

>
>Better Living Through Pixels,
>Sam
>
>Sam S. Adams, IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM Research
>tie line 444-0736, outside 919-254-0736, email: ssadams at us.ibm.com
><<Hebrews 11:6, Proverbs 3:5-6, Romans 1:16-17, I Corinthians 1:10>>


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