Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL LOGO (was: Developers Globe (FINAL))
Jan Wieck <jwieck@debis.com>
From: jwieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck)
To: vev@michvhf.com (Vince Vielhaber)
Cc: jwieck@debis.com, hannu@trust.ee, scrappy@hub.org, maillist@candle.pha.pa.us, hackers@postgreSQL.org, vadim@krs.ru, clark.evans@manhattanproject.com
Date: 1999-03-23T23:50:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
>
> Where's the elephant? :)
Still in mind and the last idea of Clark was totally nice -
putting the elephant into the diamond. Need's a complete
crystal diamond (that will eat CPU - man).
>
> Looks good, but the diamond needs the benefit of a star filter on the
> camera (so to speak). If you need I'll try to explain it in a bit more
> detail.
Outch - yes I know what you mean - I have such a one for my
camera too (along with the other usual ones like the 2 diop
hole lense etc.). That's one of the limits of raytracing
AFAIK. I never had any success on such a thing like a filter.
Also it's impossible to build spectral effects. Spectral
effects are based on the fact that the refractional index of
a material varies on the frequency of the light (that's what
makes the fire in diamonds). But a raytracer cannot do this -
or at least the trace would run infinitely long - thus no
tracer I know of supports it.
But on the star filter I have already an idea. Will try out
some things.
Jan
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