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From: u-jmolse%sunset.utah.edu@wasatch.UUCP (John M. Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: just a random idea
Summary: 99.5% pure spam by volume
Keywords: mandrill teapot
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Date: 4 Dec 88 05:57:58 GMT
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seth@miro.Berkeley.EDU (Seth Teller) writes:
|I have this idea, see: you take an image (like any bunch of pixels, could even
|be a picture) and you kind of paste it on a surface, like wallpaper on a wall.
|This way you could make the dullest of polygons look interesting. Like you
|could take a Playmate, or a monkey, or something, and put it on a coffee-pot
|(well, maybe a coffee-pot is too hard, I'll think of something else).
|Waddaya say?
|
|[ this random idea actually due to my fractal-head pal Alain Fourier ]
|	-- seth     seth@miro.berkeley.edu

No, no, NO!  Have you no sense of taste or couth?  One does these sorts
of things with mandrills and TEApots!  Like, for instance, the Utah teapot.
Yea, that's it!

Monkeys?  Ack, Pth!

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