Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!uucp From: uucp@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (UNIX Copy) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Hacked-up Song.... Message-ID: <8511051003.AA14913@dual.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 16:24:20 EST Article-I.D.: dual.8511051003.AA14913 Posted: Mon Nov 4 16:24:20 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 05:31:56 EST Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 79 The "Money for Nothing" video inspired me to perform this travesty. Leo L. Schwab ...!ucbvax!{dual,hplabs}!unicom!schwab -------- 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!