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Did the author ask James Kajiya whether he is comfortable with giving hos name to this project?
by gmueckl 5y ago
Did the author ask James Kajiya whether he is comfortable with giving hos name to this project?
- psyc 5y agoI wondered the same thing. He’s still alive and working. Not even mentioned in the acknowledgment section. Besides, it’s a terribly ambitious name for a real-time GI solution. It’d make some sense for an unbiased path tracer.
- dls2016 5y agoFor anyone out of the loop, his paper "The Rendering Equation" is very readable. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.63.1402 https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.63....
- cardiffspaceman 5y agoGood idea. One prominent precedent: Haskell Curry's widow was asked about using the name Haskell [1]: > * Hudak and Wise were asked to write to Curry’s widow, Virginia Curry, to ask if she would mind our naming the language after her husband. * [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/history.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...