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From: pfl@eniac.tmc.edu (Pedro Faria Lopes)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: PoolTable Turing Test Photo
Summary: worn against shiny and new
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Date: 28 Jan 91 17:33:49 GMT
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In article <7926@castle.ed.ac.uk>, aipdc@castle.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley) writes:
> 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.
> ...some text deleted here...
> Has anyone done any work on making things look dirty and worn? 
> Everything in the computer-graphic world is shiny and new.

not everything! have you seen "Paris 1789"? it's a computer generated film
done in 1989 to celebrate the bicentenaire of the french revolution.
Most of the scenes that include 3D buildings and gardens have that warn and
non-perfect look. They avoided the use of solid textures and, instead, they
used projected maps. the images to map were created with the help of a paint
system and done manually. that's how they avoided the clean shiny new look...
> 
> \/ o\ Paul Crowley aipdc@uk.ac.ed.castle
> /\__/ Trust me, I know what I'm doing.

pedro faria lopes
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