Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!reed!percival!baer From: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: IBM Mandelbrot commercial Message-ID: <1245@percival.UUCP> Date: 12 May 88 16:45:53 GMT References: <4513@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Reply-To: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer) Distribution: na Organization: Funkytown Software International Lines: 14 In article <4513@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> ruffwork@CS.ORST.EDU (Ritchey Ruff) writes: >Has anybody else seen the new IBM commercial with B. Mandelbrot >at a screen. IBM says that by using fractals, they can create images AS real as Nature. Well, almost :-). Actually, IBM invented nature, yeah, that's the ticket! I found the tone of this ad really amusing. I was just waiting for them to say, "Remember the triangle? That was our's too!" -- -Ken Baer. // Hash Enterprises: When the Going gets Weird, the Weird go Professional \X/ USENET - ...tektronix!reed!percival!baer OR baer@percival.UUCP, BIX - kbaer, "while (AINTGOTNOSATISFACTION) { do stuff }" - RJ Mical