CompuServe Messages

Things haven't fully settled out but I can give you a quick overview of what's up. First of all, July 9th will be my last day at Boeing. Starting July 19th I'll be working for Microsoft. They're actually willing to pay me to write ray tracing software! I'll be working for Martin Hash. Because of "conflict of interest" problems I won't be able to continue developing Vivid so I've recruited a friend of mine, Mike Thompson, to take over for me. He's been hacking ray tracer code for a few years now and should add some fresh blood to Vivid's feature list. I know for sure that he's got CSG and ehight fields working in his code so I expect to see them in Vivid within a couple of months. While I won't be developing new code for Vivid I will still be providing some support and I'll actually have a chance to use Vivid just for fun. Full info about the transfer of Vivid support and "stuff" will be included in the next release of Vivid which will be "real soon now." Well, in a nutshell, that's what's up. One nice side-effect is that I will get to go to SIGGRAPH this year. Hurray! Stephen Read action !