You've Been in Graphics Too Long if...

• Most of your friends can pronounce Gouraud first time.

• When you fist heard that some people used 16 million colours you wondered whatever for and continued to write colour-map tables for correct highlights on objects.

• You remember comp.graphics when there weren't enough articles for you to read, none of them included the word PC and nobody ever asked the difference between raytracing and rendering.

• You insist that DOOM does not use raycasting. (Technically, as it was first introduced, and anyway, who plays games at your age?)

• Your partner knows the difference between scientific visualisation and photorealistic rendering, even though they wouldn't know a polygon from a camel.

• You think an SGI Indy is OK for a quick hack but not a real graphics machine.

• You remember discussing how one day there would be graphics hardware to support rendering in desktop machines and people laughed.

• You watched the Last Starfighter in an empty theatre and marvelled thinking it was even better than TRON.

• You remember thinking that parallel computers would solve your graphics problems.

• You remember when you thought X was a high level graphics language.

• You get drunk and suddenly get really excited examining the light reflected through the whisky.

• You get despondent while walking in the woods and think "I'll never be able to render this in real time."

• You once sat up all night watching your home computer calculate the mandlebrot set with 16 colours and a resolution of 200x200.

• You sat up the next night with colleagues watching your home computer calculate the mandlebrot set with 16 colours and a resolution of 200x200.

• Your address book has email entries for Benoit, James F, and Prof David R and Eric.

• You think being a computer geek is only half way there.

• You wonder how nature processes all those photons so quickly.

• When people mention the word graphics you really insist they are more accurate in their terminology.

• You get irritated by people who say, "Oh, graphics, that's a solved problem" (even if they then go on to be precise about what they mean by the term "graphics").

• You own one or more of the following: a glass sphere, a prism, more then two copies of Foley and Van Dam, a computer which cost more than your car, a computer which cost more than your house, a pet named Phong, a graphics board from a defunct supercomputer (properly framed) or a Rubics Cube (original).

• You get 75% of the above.

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