Landscaping your company's property using these techniques will allow your simplistic models of nature to match exactly the view outside the window, fooling visiting customers. The panelists will address the surge of interest in standard, interchangeable graphics components. Such standards are of topical importance because, as graphics manufacturers go out of business, it would be convenient if their products could be disassembled and plugged directly into Silicon Graphics products. I don't know which universal image standard everyone is going to use, but I know which one I'm going to use. We suggest continuing the subdivision until the subpatch is the size of a molecule, where it can be rendered by a standard molecular modeling package.
Molecules have advantages also in creating realistic models.
In the same way that Euler operations guarantee that a model is topologically realizable, modeling with molecular primitives guaranteed that a model could be manufactured with real molecules. To verify the modeler, we invoke the Weierstrass theorem, which states that any object can be made from any primitive if you use alot of them. Ray tracing is slow, which is ironic since the rays are supposedly traveling at the speed of light. Most of the time is spent in the ray-surface intersection. The authors feel that, having done all the work of intersecting with a surface, the ray should do more when it gets there.