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Perfect Digital Skin

Posted by michael on from the now-with-benzoyl-peroxide dept.

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 :-)"

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  1. porn by kinzillah · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Imagine the effect on the porn industry.

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  2. Re:Old news... by John+Harrison · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is there a reason nobody is mentioning that he shared the Oscar with Stephen R. Marschner and Pat Hanrahan?

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  3. Re: Game use by bogie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I honestly don't really think I want to play games where you can't tell the characters from the ones in real life. I'm currently playing through Call of Duty again and if all of the soldiers I killed looked exactly like real people dying I don't think I could actually do it. There is something to be said for being able to experience things more realistically, but I just don't think it would be fun anymore. The reason why games don't lead to violence in real life imho is because its easy to clearly differentiate between life and a video game. Well what happens in 5 years when you literally cannot tell the difference between the two?
    As a gamer for over 20 years now I've always enjoyed seeing the graphics get better and better but I wonder if it will someday go too far and make games less enjoyable?

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  4. Re:wrong by d-rock · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not to be pedantic, but subsurface scattering is the physical phenomenon. Just because he found a fast approximation for it doesn't mean that it's a different technique.

    Derek

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  5. Perfect Skin by hoggoth · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's funny how the phrase "perfect skin" means exact opposites depending on if you are talking about real human beings or digital virtual human beings.
    I mean on a real person "perfect skin" means no imperfections, on a digital person "perfect skin" means skin with blemishes and realistic imperfections.

    I dunno... just saying is all...

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