James Gosling Quotes

As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn't, 'How do we make pixels prettier?' It was, 'How do we engage with them more?'

I wish I could do everything in 3D.

I'm very interested in 3D.

I've always been very interested in the question of how computation can fundamentally advance the things that we can see. This led me to have a fascination with medical imaging, especially things like MRI and scanning, and eventually computer graphics.

In computing, everything happens inside this rectangular screen. I want to get the pixels out, paint the world, and allow us to interact with it.

At Harvard, I worked for some time as a researcher in a lab for computer graphics and spatial analysis, which is one of the birthplaces for what we do.

I think I prefer 3D to 2D now.

You look at CG sometimes and its terrible. You look at CG sometimes and its great.

I had always done these 3D things that you could walk through. They were always done off the seat of my pants without blueprints or course.

Mapping and visualization is a huge area of work and is of interest to many people. We're working on reinventing a new kind of 3D cartography to make it easier to tell stories with 3D maps.

I was on record before I did 'The Hobbit,' saying I don't care at all about 3D. And I suppose I should now say I care a lot about 3D. I've always loved 3D, I think everything should be 3D, and I think it's just a shame 'The Godfather' wasn't in 3D.

But I do believe that there's going to be a time where all movies are going to be made in 3D and it's just going to be a given, and that is going to be an exciting time.

I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s.

Stereograph

To the game code, the world is still just a tile map, but for rendering, each map was exported as a general-purpose 3D model, and the artists could then go through it and spend the polygons any way they liked, without the limits of line-of-constant-z software rasterization that we lived with on the mobile phones.

The great thing about computer animation is that all of those environments exist as three-dimensional worlds, so these VR worlds already exist.

I'm a big 3-D convert.

The way we built 'Future Shock,' you have a height map and instanced 3-D objects rendering on top - that, believe it or not, is still how we build today. It's our basic paradigm for how to build a space.

ILM was the first company that I had worked at that had a computer-graphics division.

True 3D is, you have to kind of originate the images in three dimensions.

You hear people say that there's too much CG in movies today, but CG is what allows me to take a green-painted wall in a studio and make it disappear, and then put 100 miles of landscape in. CG, in the right hands, can be a marvelous tool.

I love 3D a lot, I have a great interest in 3D, so if I am given the tools to do a project with 3D, it's a dream for me.

The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.

I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.

Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye.