P3D Re: DOES THIS ANNOY YOU?

[Brian Reynolds <reynolds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tony wrote:
> 
> How many of you are annoyed by those computer people who insist on
> calling their perspective drawings '3-D'?  I find this a constant
> irritant and am always correcting them.  I find that this is sowing
> total confusion in some peoples minds when I talk about 3-D.....and
> listeners don't appreciate the difference.  Any suggestions how we
> can combat this?
> 

I'm not, but then I came from the computer graphics field (boring
graphing and statistics tools for Wall Street before I fell into
system administration).

When someone in the computer graphics field says they have a "3D
modeler", or a "3D rendering engine", or a "3D system" they mean that
their systems start with a 3D representation of the scene to be
rendered.  The rendering process may produce either a monoscopic or
stereoscopic final image (either automatically or with some hand
waving by the end user).  I have found that people in the computer
graphics field know the difference between monoscopic and stereoscopic
images (but almost never use the term monoscopic).

Of course that doesn't excuse the marketing people at places like
Nintendo or Sega from calling the monoscopic output of a 3D rendering
system a "3D game".

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Brian Reynolds                  | "Humans explore the Universe with five
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http://www.panix.com/~reynolds/ | - Edwin P. Hubble


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