| diana_coman: | mircea_popescu: looking at all sorts re graphics, I keep bumping into Eric Lengyel's stuff - he seems to have made some interesting things (eg some work on font rendering directly from vectorial repr + some data formats even); did anyone look at his work before? | [13:42] |
| diana_coman: | a search of the logs for his name didn't return anything. | [13:44] |
| mircea_popescu: | not that i know | [16:19] |
| mircea_popescu: | is he still alive ? | [16:20] |
| diana_coman: | he seems to be even reasonably young and active but he has his own engine that he seems to be pushing/selling, this theraton thing http://www.terathon.com/lengyel/ | [16:21] |
| mircea_popescu: | say hi ? | [16:24] |
| diana_coman: | mircea_popescu: I can send him an email but not quite sure what to ask of him ie what do we want from him? | [16:25] |
| mircea_popescu: | well, so far we want to say hi. | [16:26] |
| mircea_popescu: | i'm not against his writing a client, if it's sane. but you know, gotta see the guy first neh | [16:26] |
| diana_coman: | he even has a blog on which one can't comment... | [16:26] |
| mircea_popescu: | heh | [16:27] |
| diana_coman: | well yes but given that he is writing and selling books + his own engine and all that, I doubt there's a direct line like that; kind of need to find something more in common - if there's any - first, I guess. | [16:27] |
| mircea_popescu: | honestly, all coversations start with saying hi. | [16:28] |
| mircea_popescu: | you can't queue that for planning your future together | [16:28] |
| diana_coman: | mircea_popescu: sure, but what, I send an email "Hi"; seriously now; next you'll think I have a problem talking or what? | [16:28] |
| mircea_popescu: | no, but i mean, "hey, i ran over your x while i was doing y for z, are you still working on it" for instance | [16:29] |
| diana_coman: | uhm; I tend to ...say more to start with, lol; but ok, I'll fire him an email soon enough. | [16:31] |
| mircea_popescu: | if he's retarded he'll not answer ; if he's powerful he'll direct you to the respective castle, if he's weak he'll just come over. that's the trilema. | [16:31] |
| diana_coman: | eh, he'll just answer / not quite-any. | [16:32] |
| mircea_popescu: | if he thinks he's powerful without being it'll become aparent from examining the castle, at which time fallback case is retarded. | [16:32] |
| mircea_popescu: | the iron rule of reducing unknowns socially. | [16:32] |
| diana_coman: | but who knows & at any rate, an email is not a problem. | [16:32] |
| mircea_popescu: | word. | [16:32] |
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