But his new rendering engine now makes it possible to apply a single lighting model to everything from walls to monsters.
Exhibit A: television commercials that use sexy young models to pitch everything, including Viagra.
By the 1920s, companies were using pictures of smiling models to sell everything from canned vegetables to cars.
Now a growing number of women entrepreneurs in poor countries are combining both distribution models to sell everything from soap and nutrition to medicine and solar lamps.Most get their wares from social enterprises.
We already rely on statistical models to do everything from flying our airplanes to predicting the weather.
Unbeknownst to most sunbaked tourists, the Happiest Place on Earth is an enclosed universe of monitoring systems that continually cull customer surveys and use computer modeling to predict everything from how many people will eat at any one time to passenger loads on the Jungle Cruise boats.
Yes, after pulling herself out of her 1950's rut as a swimsuit model to become everything from a doctor, lawyer, computer scientist, astronaut and even the president of the United States, Barbie has now become a 3D-animated hologram that can serve up the weather on command.
Mundel is a big proponent of "modeling and simulation," according to a 2009 article in Bio-IT World, using complex mathematical models to optimize and expedite everything from biochemical drug mechanisms to decision-making and profits.
The availability of cheap components, from microcontrollers such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi, coupled with the plethora of crowdsourcing models to allow the sharing of everything from ideas to funding, means that production can move out of the factory and into the home.
It is particularly interesting that the model can be applied to everything from luxury hotels to middle-income housing.
