Showing posts with label aphorisms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aphorisms. Show all posts
Sunday, January 13, 2013

The Importance of a Classical Education for Writing Renderman Shaders

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[NB: Scott Anderson supervised the visual effects of Starship Troopers for Paul Verhoeven, and many facilities participated, including Sony...
Sunday, January 6, 2013

The Shocking Truth about Roman Architecture in France

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[Revised 1/7/2012] This is the story of the first time I actually saw a Roman ruin. I think it is very funny for what it says about me, a...
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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Recalling the Days When People Were Merely Called Eccentric

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These days I am always careful to look whomever I am with in the eye. Why is that, you may wonder. Well, it used to be, back in the days...
Monday, December 10, 2012

Reality vs Photography: The Case of the Flying Peacock

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The following image was brought to my attention by Clark Anderson and has been making the rounds on the Internet.  I looked ...
Monday, December 3, 2012

Rocket Launch Attempts and Their Many Uses

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This post will review various space program "launch attempts" (e.g. rocket failures) in the context of the study of animation tec...
Sunday, December 2, 2012

Will Life of Pi Bring Audience Credibility Back to Computer Graphics?

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I have noticed for many years now, that the audience has started to associate computer graphics with bad visual effects. Time after tim...
Sunday, November 4, 2012

The Story of Columbia University's Second Campus

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So I am going to tell you a New York real estate story, the story of Columbia University's second campus. Their current location is th...
Friday, November 2, 2012

Republicans and Oral Sex

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Sometime near the end of the Clinton administration, I was sitting in my apartment in New York reading about current politics and the worl...