From: stgprao@xing.unocal.com (Richard Ottolini)
Subject: Re: TECH: VR and Fractals
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1992 15:46:55 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Feb27.154655.28602@unocal.com>
Organization: Unocal Corporation, Anaheim, California


Since fractals, by definition, have an abitrarily fine level of detail,
I am skeptical that current VR systems could give a reasonable rendering.

There was an article in 1991 SIGGRAPH Proceedings (Computer Graphics v 25, 
n 4, p 91) by Hart and DeFanti on "Efficient antialiased rendering of 3-D 
linear fractals" that discusses algorithms for rendering arbitrarily 
resolution fractals on limited resolution output.