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Subject: Hacked-up Song....
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Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 16:24:20 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 16:24:20 1985
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	The "Money for Nothing" video inspired me to perform this travesty.

					Leo L. Schwab
...!ucbvax!{dual,hplabs}!unicom!schwab
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		Computer Graphics
(sung to the tune of "Money for nothing")
[Editor's note: some of the verses are crammed, but if you play around with
them, you'll get them to scan right.]


	{Look at my VDT}

Now, look at this picture.
That ain't real,
That's an image on a VDT.

That ain't real,
That's computer graphics.
Define your objects
Then blit the screen.

That ain't real,
That's computer graphics.
{Lemme tell ya} These guys are smart.
This one's got a PhD from MIT,
This one's got a master's in fine arts.

#define CHORUS \
We need to run at real-time frame rate, \
Got to do fractal surfaces, \
We got to ray trace this polyhedron, \
We got to do anti-aliasing...

We got VAXen comin' out of our ears.
Yeah, buddy, that's our own Cray.
We got plotters and film recorders, and>
We write games and draw pretty pictures all day.

CHORUS

CHORUS

{Look at this}
We've all learned discrete mathematics.
We've all learned to write in C.
{Look at this guy,}
{Doing cubic splines in machine code...}
{Gawd, what a genius!}

{Now look at this!  What's that?}
{It looks like it was frame-grabbed.}
It looks like a bee with the wings blurred.

That ain't real, 
That's computer graphics.
Define your objects
Then blit the screen.

CHORUS

{Now listen,} That ain't real,
That's computer graphics.
That's an image on a VDT.

That ain't real,
That's computer graphics.
Define your objects
Then blit the screen.

{Define your objects}
{Then the blit the screen}
What's that?
{Define your objects}
{Then blit the screen}
Look at that, look at that!
{Define your objects}		Look at my, look at my...
{Then blit the screen}		Look at my VDT!