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Ken Perlin @ Emily Carr

It’s always good to pay attention to what Ken Perlin is working on. This talk he gave at Emily Carr University covers a lot of his recent projects. What do you think? Is this a preview...

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The Value of Failure

I really like Ken Perlin’s blog post from last Saturday about the algorithms you never published because they didn’t work. At this point, an awful lot of my value as a graphics programmer is...

Cerulean = 26, 4.54, -24.55 (in L*A*B*) 0

Cerulean = 26, 4.54, -24.55 (in L*A*B*)

I’m sure that every time you played with your Crayolas, you wondered what the the exact difference was in the spectra of green-yellow and yellow-green. Well I did. Mark Meyer has done all of...

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VoxelBox

20 years ago this fall I retired from graphics hardware development. After we closed the doors at Stardent, John and I looked around and decided that the future of computer graphics was on the...

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SIGGRAPH Pioneers

There’s a group within SIGGRAPH called the Pioneers. They’re people who’ve been part of the SIGGRAPHH community for more than 20 years. I’ve been a member for a couple of years now because they’re...

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Foveon Sensors and Autochromes

You may have heard about Sigma’s newly released high-end camera called the SD1. If so, what you probably heard about was the price tag. A list price of $9,700 seems pretty high, but there’s...

Jim Blinn’s Corner 1

Jim Blinn’s Corner

This is really a note to self sort of post. I’m always searching through my back copies of CG&A for something that Jim Blinn wrote in his Jim Blinn’s Corner column. He had great...

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Another Teapot

The teapot picture I posted the other day has been bothering me because of the various glitches (like normals on top). It’s been hard to get time on the dev machine because Peter’s been...

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Renderscript Teapot

Newell’s teapot is sort of the hello world of graphics weenies. I don’t really feel comfortable with a graphics library until I can draw the teapot with it. Here’s my first whack at it...