From Maxwell's field lines to Jim Blinn's blobby molecular visualization
keenanisalive · x · 2026-10-10
A history lesson in the thread: roughly a century later, still motivated by visualizing atoms, Jim Blinn picked up the idea in "A Generalization of Algebraic Surface Drawing" to visualize molecules, and suggested riffing on it to build more general models like a blobby person.
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