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From: ggm@apnic.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Pico (again) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jul 2002 16:04:35 -0400."
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I always used to imagine Algorists gathering in a dusty college chamber,
glasses of Gluhwine warming in their hands (or alternately snifters of brandy)
as they discuss the relative merits of non-terminating iterative functions as
sources of near-random data.

> I retrieved some of the pico-processed images that
> were in the 10th edition manual:
> 
> http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/10thEdMan/v2pix.html
> 
> 
> 	Dennis

But now I've been reminded of these images I realise it was probably
more like a mix of an acid test, combined with a nitrous oxide jag. 

Of course that some of them are actually quite beautiful, and would not have
offended Rene Magritte or more plausibly Angus Bean or Man Ray (actually, I
think all of them would have pissed off Cecil Beaton or Karsh) only makes it
better.

Thanks for posting them. Didn't some of these also wind up on a tee-shirt
for a USENIX or AUUG?

-George