buck@drax.gsfc.nasa.gov (Loren (Buck) Buchanan) (09/22/89)
At SIGGRAPH this year they had a best t-shirt slogan contest. One of the comments in the contest announcement was about how the "no jaggies" t-shirt had an impact on the development of computer graphics hardware and software in the last half of the 80s. Well, I am propsing that we adopt the slogan "Equal Opportunity CPU Cycle Stealer" to get people to thinking about writing their programs to take advantage of all those idle CPUs sitting on your LAN. I would like to ask for suggestions for an official EOCCS logo. Please do not post these suggestions to the net (e-mail or snail-mail is fine, but if you insist on phone-mail wait until October to call). I plan on finalizing the design by the end of year. Now, just to make sure there is additional traffic on the net, what graphics systems are there that can take advantage of idle CPUs. I know that the BRL CAD package ray tracer has been quite successful. It can have a remote machine work on set of scan lines and then transfer the results back to the controling machine. B Cing U Buck Loren "Buck" Buchanan | internet: buck@drax.gsfc.nasa.gov | standard disclaimer CSC, 1100 West St. | uucp: ...!ames!dftsrv!drax!buck | "By the horns of a Laurel, MD 20707 | phonenet: (301) 497-2531 or 9898 | sky demon..."