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From: billd@fps.com (Bill Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: PoolTable Turing Test Photo
Message-ID: <15149@celit.fps.com>
Date: 29 Jan 91 02:03:38 GMT
References: <1991Jan25.142659.3914@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <15115@celit.fps.com> <1125@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
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In article <1125@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> jaapv@accucx.UUCP (Jaap Verhage) writes:
>In article <15115@celit.fps.com> billd@fps.com (Bill Davidson) writes:
>>The pool table picture was an attempt at photo-realism; something we
>>are getting closer to but can't quite do.  It was an extremely good
>>example (especially for 1984) though it attacked something that was
>[...]
>And more discussion of same. By this time, I'm getting highly
>interested in this photograph/image. I've read in earlier posts
>that it's in a book; is there an electronic version of it (the
>original?) available somewhere? And ftp-address would be highly
>appreciated.

I personally would love to have a version of it.  It's copyrighted by
Pixar.  Perhaps they can be persuaded to make it available (I know they
have people who read this group).  Some work will probably have to be
done to make it ftp-able.  The version I first saw was (I think) an
8x10 glossy photo-print.  You could get as close to it as you wanted
and you couldn't see jaggies (I didn't have a lupe handy ;-).  I would
guess that the original is probably 4k to 8k pixels across with at
least 24-bit's of color resolution.  That's a hell of a lot of data
(maybe as much as 150Mb); considerably more than most sites would
consider reasonable for ftp.  My vote (if I had one) would be for
something around 1280x1024x24 tiff or Sun Raster or some other widely
known format (this is still about 3.75Mb uncompressed; compression
would be necessary for obvious reasons).  I would think it would
compress well with all that green felt.

--Bill Davidson