Stippling As Fast 3D Technique

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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whizzier than id?

[pcbob]

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

Next advancement in medical imaging

[Woogiemonger]

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

Ancient knowledge brings amazing possibilities.

[Temporal]

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.

uh oh

[enneff]

"whizzier than Id"

I really, really hope that was an unintentional pun.

Pointalism

[bytesmythe]

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."

Re:No polygon replacements.

[mhocker]

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...

Seurat = beautiful

[HBI]

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.