teraflop club
<body> /te'r*-flop kluhb/ (From tera- and flops) A mythical association
of people who consume outrageous amounts of computer time in order to produce a
few simple pictures of glass balls with intricate ray-tracing techniques.
Caltech professor James Kajiya is said to have been the founder.
[Jargon File]
(1997-07-21)
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