This is so obvious... If you double the expiration date of a medicine, you cut the profit of the companies by half (sort of, of course - if you don't need to discard an expired medicine, you won't need to buy a new box if needed at least not that often). The pharmaceutical industry is evil, profiting on people's life and death at their own will. See the HIV for example (or even cancer): instead of searching more effectively for an actual cure, they just prefer to let people live thethered to their "cocktails" (which aren't cheap) for life. Profit, of course, so they can "spend the money of the profit on new researches"... yeah, sure.
The longest I had patience to wait for a render was around 90 hours, and this was for a single image, this is why I've never tried animations. And this with already a 4Gb RAM and a Quadcore processor. I can imagine how it was during the 386/486 days and Fractint. Once I did a pretty deep zoom only to find that people were doing zooms way deeper than mine...
One of the things I like the most is to find and read about relations between simmetry, fractals, Fibonacci etc. and things that are part of our lives - living creatures, artworks, buildings, etc even not being a person interested in mathematics at all. That recent story about MRI's of fruits is amazing - who would know that seeds of a watermelon are placed like a spiral?
One of the things I like the most is to find and read about relations between simmetry, fractals, Fibonacci etc. and things that are part of our lives - living creatures, artworks, buildings, etc even not being a person interested in mathematics at all. That recent story about MRI's of fruits is amazing - who would know that seeds of a watermelon are placed like a spiral?