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From: ableier@cdp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Graphics on TV
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Date: 28 Sep 88 01:21:00 GMT
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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