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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. KitchenSink@IDsoftware.com by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    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.

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    1. Re:KitchenSink@IDsoftware.com by Dogers · · Score: 5, Funny

      A cray? pft, all i need is my longhorn PC! :)

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    2. Re:KitchenSink@IDsoftware.com by Swashedbuckles · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, it replaced the grenade launcher. Now you get to spurt rusty water and at the imps.

  2. Old news... by ankit · · Score: 5, Informative

    Henrik Wann Jensen also got a technical Oscar earlier this year. This work is actually quite old. See the original Siggraph 2001 paper here.

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    1. Re:Old news... by d-rock · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Right, when I saw this article I was thinking: "What, something beyond subsurface scattering?" This has been out for a couple of years. That doesn't make it any less cool, but I'd like to see more Slashdot stuff on newer graphics techniques, like General Purpose GPU stuff (www.gpgpu.org) or new illumination models. It doesn't have to be front page, but I'd like for the graphics topic to be a little less "lite".

      Derek

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  3. This is an abomination by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do you have any idea how many infants had to be skinned to get that shader just right?

  4. Subsurface scattering by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just in case anyone's wondering what that magical technique is: It's called subsurface scattering and simulates the light flow within materials, not just on the surface.

  5. Re:porn by GoofyBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    >can they perfectly model a woman's personality?

    I think you are using pr0n wrong.

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  6. Re:Kitchen sink... by hal2814 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "What isn't going to be included in DOOM3?"

    A real release date.

  7. Re:Porn Economics by budhaboy · · Score: 5, Funny
    After all, paying engineers is obviosly more costly than paying hores.

    Not if the engineers are living in India.

  8. Re:porn by ian_ian · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine the effect on the porn industry.

    if the new digital startlets are going to have skin like Gollum...er, no thanks.

  9. Re:porn by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    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?

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  10. Re:skin by mekkab · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is slashdot. We've dated Oil of Olay, Crisco, and Vaseline. WE have no shame!

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  11. If I were U... by Xhad · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...then this article would be entitled "Perfect Dugutal Skun"

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  12. Re:porn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    This is mod'd insightful??? Is it too much for a moderator to even read the slashdot entry.


    Of course there are endless other opportunities for virtual humans with perfect skin :-)


    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!