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From: aipdc@castle.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: PoolTable Turing Test Photo
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Date: 19 Jan 91 13:01:47 GMT
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robert@sgi.com sez in <1991Jan19.031630.3683@odin.corp.sgi.com>
>Of course, as others have pointed out, the balls and table are too 
>perfect, which is another imperfection.

I saw another Turing-test which was a photo of a classroom and a
raytraced copy.  The only way you could tell the difference was because
the board was dirty in one.

Has anyone done any work on making things look dirty and worn? 
Everything in the computer-graphic world is shiny and new.

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