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Stippling As Fast 3D Technique

Posted by timothy on from the dot-dot-dot dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This Stippling effort wins best paper at IEEE Boston conference. Could real time medical rendering be whizzier than Id?"

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  1. whizzier than id? by pcbob · · Score: 4, Funny

    Probably not, but it's certainly just as bloody... or maybe i'm underestimating doom III.

  2. The real question is... by StandardCell · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...when will it be used for pr0n?

  3. Or can we say... by ejaytee · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can a bunch of PhDs who are all supposed to know quite a bit about what they are doing, including Purdue EE professors, a researcher or two from IBM TJ Watson, and some almost-PhD graduate students, come up with something as mighty as what Id Software can invent?

    Id is great and everything, but gee, I hope the answer is yes, they probably can.

    1. Re:Or can we say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      As a matter of fact, one of my EE professors drove a Ferrari F40 to work on nice days. The gloomy ones were made for the 740i.

      His name was Dennis Polla, U of MN EE department. One of the best profs I ever had.

  4. I never know ATI/NVIDIA hires strippers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Forget about hiring computer science majors! Just go to the strip clubs and start sending the headhunters!! Get the same performance for 99+% off!!!

  5. Next advancement in medical imaging by Woogiemonger · · Score: 5, Funny

    Rumor has it, doctors will soon be rendering a patient's internal organs with ASCII art.

  6. Ancient knowledge brings amazing possibilities. by Temporal · · Score: 3, Funny

    From the article:

    Ancient artists used a technique called stippling - in which pictures are created by painting or carving a series of tiny dots - to produce drawings on cave walls and utensils thousands of years ago.

    Wow, think of what you could do with this! You could print grayscale images using only one color of ink, or color images using only three or four! No longer would we be limited to viewing images on expensive computer and television screens. We could actually print the images on a super-thin sheet of cloth or wood. We could call this new device "paper".

    Ancient artists sure were smart.

  7. Maybe this is unrealistic... by SouperDouper · · Score: 2, Funny

    Could this be used in a FPS to map people's facial expressions in real time (well, less the appropriate lag). I'd love to be able to see the pissed off look on some guy's face who I've fragged three dozen times straight.

  8. uh oh by enneff · · Score: 3, Funny

    "whizzier than Id"

    I really, really hope that was an unintentional pun.

  9. Pointalism by bytesmythe · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hmm... I've never been a big fan of pointalism. It looks like too much work.

    Now, a nice impressionist rendering would be great. Although, I'm not sure I'd want a neurosurgeon screwing around with my brain based on an artistic impression of it.

    "Well, see the giant green splotches represent perverted thoughts and... well, there isn't much else to speak of. Apparently, this small yellow part over here is occupied with programming, and it's slowly being invaded by a brown sludgy part which wants some more coffee. Overall, the painting's not worth much, and I certainly wouldn't want it hanging over my couch. Ok... let's make the first incision."

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    bytesmythe
    Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.
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  10. Re:No polygon replacements. by mhocker · · Score: 3, Funny

    People at Id don't bother to render and model the organs

    Actually, I'd argue that 'rendering' (in the true abattoir sense of the word) is the whole point of Id games...

  11. Technique was **PATENTED** by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    by Grog the caveman under the Digital Millenium Caveman Act over 25,000 years ago.

    It is time to PAY Grog's estate and not STEAL the work of these innovators.

  12. Seurat = beautiful by HBI · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know if you've ever seen Seurat's work, but it is LARGE (canvas-wise) and absolutely stunning visually. I got up close to the canvas at MOMA in NYC and said "He's dithering!" and my girlfriend, the BACS going for her art degree now, craps all over me "No, it's pointillism!".

    I dropped the argument due to my desire to make sweet love to her all night long.

    --
    HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
  13. Re:I don't see the point by pipacs · · Score: 2, Funny
    I don't see the point
    Then this kind of rendering is definitely not for you.