As someone working at the same time as him on similar problems, I honestly and sincerely disagree. At the time my reaction was "this is space cadet stuff". 486

As someone working at the same time as him on similar problems, I honestly and sincerely disagree. At the time my reaction was "this is space cadet stuff". 486 hardware was really slow, and the idea of doing any kind of real computational geometry back then was incredibly far-fetched. Until he showed it wasn't.