{"id":44,"date":"2008-09-07T05:42:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T11:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2016-04-02T09:08:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T15:08:18","slug":"bzier-gouraud-fresnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/bzier-gouraud-fresnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Bézier, Gouraud, Fresnel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vincent Scheib’s terminology rant<\/a> included how to pronounce “SIGGRAPH” (i.e., like “sigma”), a pet peeve of mine. This reminded me of the following.<\/p>\n

While writing the book, we wanted to give phonetic spellings of various common graphics terms – after hearing someone pronounce “Gouraud” as “Goo-raude” I thought it worth the time. In searching around, I realized that people seemed to somewhat disagree about B\u00e9zier, so finally I asked a few people from France. Fr\u00e9do Durand<\/a> gave the best response, sending an audio clip of him pronouncing the words. So, without further ado, here’s the audio clip<\/a>. Now you know.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/em>\u00a0here’s a nice article<\/a> about pronunciation of many other computer graphics related terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vincent Scheib’s terminology rant included how to pronounce “SIGGRAPH” (i.e., like “sigma”), a pet peeve of mine. This reminded me of the following. While writing the book, we wanted to give phonetic spellings of various common graphics terms – after hearing someone pronounce “Gouraud” as “Goo-raude” I thought it worth the time. In searching around, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82,81,80],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-bezier","tag-fresnel","tag-gouraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4304,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/4304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}