Yesterday I did an extra lecture for my computer graphics class. It consisted entirely of old favorites — various interactive things that I created using computer graphics stretching back literally decades.<\/p>\n
The students seemed to really like it, and for me it was an interesting journey as well. I found myself remembering where I was when I created this or that, and what else was going on in my life at the time.<\/p>\n
Revisiting my old computer graphics, and talking about them, was opening a portal into my long term memory. As the lecture progressed, people and places I had not thought about for years came to mind.<\/p>\n
And perhaps more important, I realized that the computer graphics creations themselves were, in their own way, old friends. And some times it can be good to visit an old friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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