Ken Perlin is impressive. He does programming problems for fun which automatically makes him more useful than myself. The video demonstrations of PAD were incredible. The original pad compare with Seadragon, even in today's standards, still seemed more impressive. Infinitely expanding into and out of any image with super high resolution. It's totally great. And he made it decades ago. If I were KP, I would totally want some Seadragon money.
His most notable innovation was his academy award winning visual technology noise-turbulence. Even though his "space vase" looks incredibly dated with today's special effects, its still good to appreciate the amount of work it takes to even create marble. I love that his inspiration was late night coffee.
Yeah it definitely does look dated but I totally appreciate seeing it for what it is (a groundbreaking special effect) and as you said the amount of work it took to create it.
ReplyDeletetoo bad PAD hasnt been full developed into a useful app today. i agree that PAD was more impressive then sea dragon, especially since it is sooo old.
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