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Perfect Digital Skin
ILMfan writes "BBC Technology is describing a new graphics algorithm for creating perfect virtual skin. This technique by graphics wizard Henrik Jensen (the guy who invented photon mapping) is already being used in movies (it was used on Gollum in Lord of the Rings, and it will be used in the soon-to-be-released van Helsing movie). And perhaps more exciting is that several game companies are planning on using it for their next generation games. So John Carmack are you listening? Any chance this can be included in DOOM3? Of course there are endless other opportunities for virtual humans with perfect skin :-)"
So John Carmack are you listening? Any chance this can be included in DOOM3?
No, but you should see the urine stream they've mastered for Duke Nukem Forever. WOW!
So John Carmack are you listening? Any chance this can be included in DOOM3?
Sure, add it all in! That way when DOOM3 is finally released it will only be available bundled with a new Cray X1.
Trolling is a art,
The day is soon upon us where we will have CG pr0n. Maybe they'll even sell pr0n video games. *Imagines Zork-like text-based erotic fiction*
Playboy figured this one out ten years ago.
i won't buy games until it comes out on Duke Nukem
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Anyone's who's stuck a flashlight in their mouth could have told you that skin doesn't just reflect light...
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
Do you have any idea how many infants had to be skinned to get that shader just right?
"...Any chance this can be included in DOOM3? ..."
What isn't going to be included in DOOM3?
Oh yeah, but can they perfectly model a woman's personality?
>can they perfectly model a woman's personality?
I think you are using pr0n wrong.
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
Was I the only one who on reading the article title thought - great at last a chance to replace my pox marked old exterior?
After all, paying engineers is obviosly more costly than paying hores.
Yes, but how many engineers would work for the rate of hores to be making cg porn.
Evolution or ID?
Not if the engineers are living in India.
I'm sorry but anyone who thinks Gollum has perfect skin needs a date with a jar of Oil of Olay.
Imagine the effect on the porn industry.
if the new digital startlets are going to have skin like Gollum...er, no thanks.
Imagine the effect on the porn industry.
They'll be able to render new skin on Ron Jeremy rather than having to shave his shoulders and back every couple of days?
Trolling is a art,
..as I will already know what Sex my robot is!
Wow, the kiddies will be able to download Pre set Studio Max, or lightwave files with finnished wireframe movies and then all the have to do is hit RENDER. It's like the EasyBake oven for porn!
Sign me up for the next distributed computing craze: pr0n@home!
...then this article would be entitled "Perfect Dugutal Skun"
Member of Orkut? Annoyed with spam?
What the hell do you people think this means? This is slashdot. It can only mean one of three things - porn, natalie portman, or natalie portman porn.
Honestly, the smiley at the end is a dead giveaway. Come on people!
Didja see the new lens-flare algorithms? They're 16% more realistic than anything ever seen before. (Requirements: Dual P4, 300 gigs available on HD, 2 gigs RAM, etc...)
sweet! i guess that longhorn is gonna be using lensflares all over the place...
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Good God! 3 slashdotters misspelling "whore" is like a vice-president misspelling tomat-----oooooh... how ironic...
Perhaps, with this digital skin, the industry can make movies in the future (perhaps 10 years for truely believable ones) that doesn't put people in jepardy to STD's, AND it doesn't exploit young girls. But I'm sure there will be some people that object to even digital actors "exploiting themselves".
Out of the blue, this comment made me think of George Lucas. Don't ask me why.
Nobody believes the official spokesman, but everybody trusts an unidentified source. -- Ron Nesen
He also hopes that in the future it will be more widely used in architectural design and art restoration to make virtual buildings leap out of the computer screen.
Writer: Did you read that computer graphics piece?
Editor: Hrmph.
Writer: Is it going in?
Editor: Does it mention things leaping out of the computer screen?
Writer: No, it's about a rendering technique.
Editor: The style book says, and I quote, "All stories refering to 3D computer graphics must include the phrase 'leaping out of the screen'"
Writer: I guess I could tack it on at the end. It really wouldn't make sense though.
Editor: No one will notice.
When you see '1777' and start drooling because of open access permissions :P
When this tech finally gets into the handicam budget used by the porn industry, we'll probably know it by the fact that the guy's dick is 14 feet long and rock hard and the girl's bust is a 44 quintuple Q. This is what is known in the porn industry as "creativity."
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
My dream of a virtual Janet Reno is at last possible!
You see they are going to add Duke Nuken Forever to Emacs first. Then they are going to add Emacs to DOOM3.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
I wish women would mold their personality after porn....
Sounds good. Can I get this for my Inflateable Mateable?
Though I don't want to go as far with it as this guy!
Gonzo porn? You mean like the muppet?
What the hell kind of mental image is that for a Thursday afternoon??
Probably not, afterall...
:)
A computer does what you tell it to do
A computer is completely rational
A computer's memory is cleared everytime you turn it off
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I could go on but the female mods are allready going to burn me on this one
Killfile(TGK)
No trees were killed in the creation of this post. However, many electrons were inconvenienced.
Good lord, why do you have to be such a preachy piece of shit with people? Is someone mentioning the name of a celebrity always an invitation for you to espouse your entire viewpoint on the dreams and ambitions of those around you? Do you do this to your friends as well? Do they all secretly hate you?
Oh yeah, but can they perfectly model a woman's personality?
Of course not. Computers perform _logical_ perations.
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Will
You mean, like, your girlfriend doing it with everybody you know, and everybody you don't, while you watch, or even join in? :}
Eric: "What're quantum mechanics?"
Rincewind: "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose."