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)