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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Comp.Image.Processing (not how but WHY?)
Message-ID: <2195@eos.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 88 21:54:51 GMT
References: <172@vmsa.technion.ac.il> <589@wasatch.UUCP> <1988Dec19.141246.3075@isy.liu.se>
Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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In article <1988Dec19.141246.3075@isy.liu.se> ingemar@carola.UUCP () writes:
>Here's another one who can't keep his big mouth shut (that's me, that is):
>
>Computer Graphics, Image Processing, Computer Vision and AI are different,
>related subjects. People like me, who are mainly interested in IP and CV,
>find very little of interest in comp.graphics or comp.ai(.vision).
>
>So where should such things be posted? Or are there no such postings?

My background is image processing for remote sensing.  That's not AI,
that's not vision, that's not synthetic image generation.  Rather than
propose a new group, JUST POST what you have to say.  What makes a
newsgroup is what gets posted, not what gets read.  If comp.graphics
is the closest thing, go ahead.  You won't get criticized.  When the
traffic is sufficient, then you might consider.  Do you criticize
ACM Computer Graphics for a lack of IP and topics?  I'd rather read
the ASP publications for my area, yet I retain an interest in synthetic
image generation [it's only when my choices for systems are confined
that I complain].  Let's see you stimulate some discussion.

Another gross generalization from

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