Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!wasatch!sunset.utah.edu!u-jmolse 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 Message-ID: <675@wasatch.UUCP> Date: 4 Dec 88 05:57:58 GMT References: <7980@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@wasatch.UUCP Reply-To: u-jmolse%sunset.utah.edu.UUCP@wasatch.UUCP (John M. Olsen) Organization: University of Utah, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 22 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! :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) /\/\ /| | /||| /\| | John M. Olsen, 1547 Jamestown Drive /\/\ \/\/ \|()|\|\_ |||.\/|/)@|\_ | Salt Lake City, UT 84121-2051 \/\/ /\/\ | u-jmolse%ug@cs.utah.edu or ...!utah-cs!utah-ug!u-jmolse /\/\ \/\/ "A full mailbox is a happy mailbox" \/\/