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From: musgrave-forest@cs.yale.edu (F. Ken Musgrave)
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Subject: re: Graphical Turing tests (of discrimination)
Summary: testing testing netnew software from eos
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Date: 28 Feb 91 09:49:38 GMT
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>From: eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene Miya)
>
>What I wonder is: if we are still roughly in the same place 10 years from now
>(perhaps we generate images faster, but marginal gains in 'quality') and
>have people looking back in the same way (forgetting earlier work).

  The gains in quality will be more than marginal, mark my word.  But the cost
will grow exponentially.  (Fortunately, so does comuputing power.)

  As a practitioner of if-it-looks-good-it's-ok graphics, I see that there is
currently still plenty of room for that kind of work.  Increasingly, however,
it will be supplanted by scientifically sound approaches; this will earn our
field a more respected reputation.

  This is both good and bad: as the field matures, "good" research will become
more challenging to do.  We're still picking up the apples off the ground, to
a large extent; not yet having to climb for them...

  Ignorance will persist.

							Ken

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