weemba%garnet.Berkeley.EDU@violet.berkeley.edu (Matthew P Wiener) (09/24/88)
In article <5403@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> you write: >I love Math, I've loved it ever since I was a small boy. My job is >exactly what I've dreamed of all my life. And I love my work, but >the social hassles have taken most of the fun away from it. Several summers ago I had the joy of generating very high quality Mandelbrot pictures with a Cray computer, a Matrix camera, and Polaroid film. (This camera is an output device designed to send images of pixels from a graphics tube directly to the film.) Since the images were only taking one to ten minutes to generate, I got a wide sample of pictures. One mathematician friend took some to show his fiance and her parents. He told me the next day that his future in-laws finally understood then that there was indeed something different and wonderful going on in mathematics. In particular, they stopped suggesting that of course he wants to meet his future uncle-in-law, the accountant. ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720