IMAGES AND REVERSALS Make All Things Make Themselves Thomas G. West "The reaction to the Darwinian theory was ... diverse when it first exploded ante the Victorian scene.... Far Charles Kingsley,a deity who could make all things make themselves was far wiser than one who simply made all things." [ I ] Computer graphics has always been about making things, whether making 3D images of real objects, making images of imagined visions or making models of the "unseen" in visualizations of scientific data. During the Renaissance, the goal of art was to imitate nature, to make true and accurate images of the real world. Even in the poetry of the period, the "prime aim ... was to make an imitation" in order to "grasp the essential meaning and value" [3] Although this goal fell away some time ago, we can now see that our newest tools make it possible to imitate nature once again - but this time at much deeper levels, The imitation can be not only of images of surfaces, but also imitation of nature's growth, its physical motion, its processes, its inner workings, its unfolding instructions according to an simple code - imitating the immense
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Make all things make themselves
West, Thomas G.
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, Volume 33 (2)
Association for Computing Machinery – May 1, 1999
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