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From: mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle (Nexus))
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Subject: Re: PoolTable Turing Test Photo
Keywords: graphics copyright renderman
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Date: 16 Jan 91 05:26:53 GMT
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In article <1084@cthulhuControl.COM> raisch@Control.COM (Robert Raisch) writes:
>I have recently seen a piece of marketing hype that uses the "famous"
>pool table image that was supposed to have passed the "Turing Test" 
>for computer generated images.  (It's the one where a cueball is seen
>striking a set of pool balls, (1,5,11,12), and what makes it really
>spectacular is the use of motion blurring.)

The only image I could find was one using the balls 1,9,8, and 4 (of course
the name of the image is 1984 :-).  It's in "3D Computer Graphics" by Andrew
Glassner (image C-14) and "An Introduction to Ray Tracing" edited by Glassner 
(p193).  It is credited to Tom Porter, Pixar.

Is this the one you were thinking of, or is there another one also??
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