At 11:32 AM -0400 7/15/99, Emil Briggs wrote:
Consider your audience, the people you want to impress, what makes
their hearts beat faster? I remember a fellow who came into the lab I
where was working. He wanted to learn about the PDP-8 and I had a
dozen of 'em. He sat down wrote a FORTRAN program to approximate Pi,
compiled it, and started to stand up. He dropped the papers in his
lap and bent to pick them up. Before he could pick them up the
printer began to print the first approximation, before he could get
to the printer it had finished printing the second approximation, and
was starting on the third. His jaw was literally hanging open. He had
started to stand up because he thought he could go get a Coke from
the vending machine down the hall while the PDP-8 was working on the
problem.
Don't discount "number-crunching apps" if they are what will impress
your audience most.
>Something to do with ray-tracing might be a good choice. POVray for
>instance. There are plenty of number-crunching apps that you could
>use but they generally aren't very flashy.
>
>Regards
>Emil
>
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