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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Realism
Message-ID: <4966@eos.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 89 17:36:29 GMT
Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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>Surrealistic computer graphics

The generation of "realistic" imagery derives from two different
pasts:

	Art: which sought "realistic" scene reproduction (before
	the advent of photography) to record events, information, etc.

	Early mathematics and computer science from the time (1950) of
	Alan Turing.  Turing's Test was (is) a test of discrimination:
	the inability to tell the difference between a machine and
	a human (purely by testing intellect).  It's to fool a human
	and later a machine observer.

"Is it live or is it Memorex (tm)?"  the commercial asks.
We have always wanted to try and "fool Mother Nature."
Surrealism only comes later when it seems "reality" becomes difficult
to achieve.

Another gross generalization from

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