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Essential Mathematics for Computer Graphics Fast

by John A. Vince

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The Art Spirit by Robert Henri

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The tendency to put in more and more white is so usual that it would be well to restrict the white. Keep it off the palette. Allow only so much of it in the pigments which must have it, and allow them much less than you think they should ...more

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“The human mind serves evolutionary success, not truth. To think otherwise is to resurrect the pre-Darwinian error that humans are different from all other animals.”
― John N. Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

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“In a competition for mates, a well developed capacity for self-deception is an advantage, The same is true in politics and other contexts.”
― John N. Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

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“As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.”
― John N. Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

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“Dispensing with the rug is a kenotic act of distillation. Such men eschew ornament and ostentation. Their very being seems to say, 鈥楬ave you any idea how quickly I can shower?”
― Richard Ayoade, Ayoade on Top

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“Cinema helps us to remember that although we all have the right to shine, some of us must shine in the background, out of focus, and not too brightly.”
― Richard Ayoade, Ayoade on Top

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