You've been in graphics too long if......
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Most of your friends can pronounce Gouraud first time.

When you first heard that some people used 16 million colours you wondered
whatever for and continued to write colour-map tables for correct
highlights on objects.

You remember comp.graphics when there weren't enough articles for you
to read, none of them included the word PC and nobody ever asked the
difference between raytracing and rendering.

You insist that DOOM does not use raycasting. (Technically, as it was
first introduced, and anyway, who plays games at your age?)

Your other half knows the difference between scientific visualisation and
photorealistic rendering, even though they wouldn't know a polygon from a
camel.

You think an SGI Indy is OK for a quick hack but not a real graphics
machine.

You remember discussing how one day there would be graphics hardware to
support rendering in desktop machines and people laughed.

You watched the Last Starfighter in an empty theatre and marvelled at
it thinking it was *even* better than TRON.

You remember thinking that parallel computers would solve your graphics
problems.

You remember when you thought X was a high level graphics language.

You get drunk and suddenly you get real excited examining the
light relected through the whisky.

You get despondent while walking in the woods and think "I'll never be
able to render this in real time".

You once sat up all night watching your home computer calculate the
mandlebrot set with 16 colours and a resolution of 200x200.

You sat up the next night with colleagues watching your home
computer calculate the mandlebrot set with 16 colours and a resolution
of 200x200.

You address book has email entries for Benoit, James F., and Prof David R
and Eric.

You think being a computer geek is only half way there.

You wonder how nature processes all those photons so damn quickly.

When people mention the word graphics you really insist they are more
accurate in their terminology.

You get irritated by people who say "Oh graphics, that's a solved
problem" (even if they then go on to be precise about what they mean by
the term "graphics").

You own one or more of the following: a glass sphere, a prism, more then
two copies of Foley and Van Dam, a computer which cost more than your
car, a computer which cost more than your house, a pet named Phong, a
graphics board from a defunct supercomputer (properly framed) or a
Rubics Cube (original).

You get 75% of the above!
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