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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