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From: rhbartel@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Richard Bartels)
Subject: Re: Generating photographic grain imperfection in computer graphics?
Message-ID: <1991Apr13.142010.1391@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1991 14:20:10 GMT
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The discussion reminds me of a topic we had in my freshman anthropology
class oodles of years ago.  Whenever a new technology arrived during
the development of civilization, it was invariably packaged to look
like old technology until the innovators learned how to exploit its
distinctive potential and the consumers learned to accept its strange
novelty.

Examples included the fact that the earliest recorded pottery was
invariably decorated with incisions that made it look like basketry.

-Richard