Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!ucbvax!pasteur!helios.ee.lbl.gov!lll-tis!lll-winken!arisia!cdp!ableier From: ableier@cdp.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Graphics on TV Message-ID: <69200002@cdp> Date: 28 Sep 88 01:21:00 GMT References: <14384@hc.DSPO.GOV> Lines: 14 Nf-ID: #R:hc.DSPO.GOV:14384:cdp:69200002:000:673 Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!ableier Sep 27 18:21:00 1988 I can say Wavefront.... I can also say "hideously ugly and overly cute". Of course beauty is a matter of taste, but in the spirit of being constructive rather than destructively critical, I would like to suggest to practioners of computer graphics that they keep working for what feels beautiful after they have achieved their initial goals of near-realism or lots-of-simultaneous- motion. For example, the piece where the dragon throws the ball through the pagoda door approaches beauty for me when the colored bands move in circles like a dancer's ribbon -- but then those national flags come flying through, wiggling like little fishes -- why so much overkill? Alan