I have now written about a month of posts on computer graphics programming for non-programmers. And it feels as though I’ve scribbled enough on these particular cave walls — for now.<\/p>\n
I will very likely take up the torch again. But if I do, I think I’ll head off into a different direction, and try to illuminate some other unexplored passageways.<\/p>\n
Speaking of caves, one of the wondrous things about computer graphics is that it’s like that old Denisovan parable about the woolly mammoth: If you stand too close to the mammoth, it is difficult to see it clearly.<\/p>\n
What you can glimpse from that viewpoint looks a lot like disparate parts from different animals. Yet once you step back, you begin to realize how all those various parts fit together, and the combination is rather elegant.<\/p>\n
Computer graphics is like that: It’s a great big beautiful woolly mammoth of seemingly disparate parts. But if you take a few steps back within the cave and lift your torch high enough, all of those parts mesh together to form something completely glorious and beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have now written about a month of posts on computer graphics programming for non-programmers. And it feels as though I’ve scribbled enough on these particular cave walls — for now. I will very likely take up the torch again. But if I do, I think I’ll head off into a different direction, and try … Continue reading “Mammoth undertakings”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19603"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19604,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19603\/revisions\/19604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}