Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!motcsd!xdos!doug
From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Computer generated Porn?
Message-ID: <319@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 89 20:01:22 GMT
References: <2272@pur-phy>
Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley)
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In article <2272@pur-phy> piner@pur-phy (Richard Piner) writes:
>movie. Every year computer animation improves. How long will it
>be before it is possible to make a blue movie without cameras or actors?
>[ ... ] (I'd guess 25 years, myself.)

Way too pessimistic. Try *right now* for near-realism (look
at Tin Toy...in terms of near-realism, that is, not as a
candidate for...oh never mind; what sick minds! :-)

For photographic realism, less than three years.
That's for "possible".

My guess for when it will be *inevitable* is 5 years.

Given hardware performance curves, clearly the only tricky part
is how to synthetically generate dialog as dumb as that in porno
movies. Even "Eliza" sounded smarter than that! Of course, you could
always cheat and use human voiceovers.

Seriously, things like natural body motions are hard...er, difficult,
but as previously stated, porn stars are pretty wooden and unnatural-
seeming most of the time anyway. And with some serious work in that
area I'd expect the simulated actors to outperform real ones quite
easily.
	Doug
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