Introduction

My esteemed Cordelia,

Wondrous news! I have undertaken the design and construction of a new Technique for improved "parallax mapping" on the "graphical processing unit"! This Technique, if I may be so bold, promises to increase the realism with which parallax mapping displays curved objects obliquely, and at a relatively low cost in calculation. By making clever use of fins which point into the object, rather than out, it will be possible to clearly display the silhouettes of objects with the complexity their bump maps promise, rather than as mundane polylines. I need only finalise the details of the mathematics, and then implement the Technique. More to follow!

Hoping the dropsy does not take poor Thaddeus,

Ben