{"id":395,"date":"2009-10-05T10:23:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T16:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2009-10-05T10:32:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T16:32:05","slug":"smog-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/smog-results\/","title":{"rendered":"SMOG Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife just told me about the SMOG readability formula, which is evidently widely used. &#8220;SMOG&#8221; stands for <em>Simple Measure of Gobbledygook<\/em>. It looks for the number of polysyllabic words (3 syllables or more) used in a document. The square root of the result of dividing the number of polysyllabic words by the number of sentences is used to derive a readability grade level; read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SMOG\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I ran the calculator <a href=\"http:\/\/wordscount.info\/wc\/jsp\/clear\/analyze_smog.jsp\">here<\/a> on a few passages in our book (those without equations, which I thought would throw the calculator off): Deferred Shading, Fresnel Equation, Scene Graphs, and the final chapter. Scene Graphs was simplest, at 12.56, Fresnel hardest, at 14.1. On average the level was a bit above 13, meaning College Freshman level. Pieces such as <a href=\"http:\/\/world-poetry.suite101.com\/article.cfm\/nerudas_ars_poetica\">this one<\/a> weigh in at 17.12. I took a piece of text from Hearn and Baker&#8217;s old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Computer-Graphics-Version-Donald-Hearn\/dp\/B000L9N23M?tag=realtimerenderin\">Computer Graphics, C Version, 2nd Edition<\/a>, on Fractals, and it came up as 14.47. So our book&#8217;s no <em>Hop on Pop<\/em>, but it&#8217;s at least not horrifically hard and seems in the ball park for our target audience.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, this post&#8217;s SMOG grade is 11.21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife just told me about the SMOG readability formula, which is evidently widely used. &#8220;SMOG&#8221; stands for Simple Measure of Gobbledygook. It looks for the number of polysyllabic words (3 syllables or more) used in a document. The square root of the result of dividing the number of polysyllabic words by the number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[251],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","tag-smog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}