Rendering Synthetic Objects Into Old Photographs

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Rendering Synthetic Objects Into Old Photographs

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 23, 2011 @06:19PM from the improve-on-reality dept.

First time accepted submitter IDarkISwordI writes "A new abstract headed to SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 provides a method for rapid execution of computer graphics, synthesized into photographs with accurate lighting and physics based on limited input from a user and interpretation by their code." The results are impressive; hard to watch the video demo (on linked page) without boggling.

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Weeping angel by zebadee · 2011-10-23 18:53 · Score: 3, Funny

Right at the end of the video. Now you can have a weeping angel moving through your very own lounge!
Re:Those photo's look.... by qxcv · 2011-10-23 18:57 · Score: 4, Funny

Obligatory XKCD

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Re: by NFN_NLN · 2011-10-23 19:04 · Score: 5, Funny

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any software available for download, only the research paper.
The release is delayed because the software is limited to only a few useful objects at the moment: Buddha Statue, Dragon Statue, Pool Table and Dead Hooker.
Re:Those photo's look.... by SomePgmr · 2011-10-23 19:43 · Score: 3, Funny

Or more appropriately... http://xk3d.xkcd.com/331/
I think we already got there. by YesIAmAScript · 2011-10-23 19:56 · Score: 4, Funny

http://s418.photobucket.com/albums/pp263/Ironic-Mike/?action=view&current=X-WingonAircraftCarrier.jpg
This line is padding.

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Re: by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-23 20:04 · Score: 5, Funny

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any software available for download, only the research paper.
The release is delayed because the software is limited to only a few useful objects at the moment: Buddha Statue, Dragon Statue, Pool Table and Dead Hooker.
But I need software that can *remove* dead hookers from photos! That's the problem with academia, totally disconnected with the needs of the real world.
George Lucas... by dotancohen · 2011-10-23 20:23 · Score: 3, Funny

...will have a field day with this. Please, someone keep him away from whatever _is_ left of the original Star Wars film!
Didn't someone once suggest that we refer to these techniques as lucassizing?

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Re:Who needs a computer? by biodata · 2011-10-23 20:47 · Score: 2, Funny

In Soviet Russia pictures shop you.

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Why are we trying to baffle future generations? by damburger · 2011-10-23 21:32 · Score: 4, Funny

So, peak oil arrives, there is a superflu pandemic, 99942 Apophis impacts and blocks out the Sun, etc. etc. we all die.
...then, centuries later, technological civilisation reemerges, and starts analysing data storage devices they dig up. Most of them are unreadable, but they do get fragments of data with which they can start to piece together what happened before The Event.
And what do they find? Pictures of people listening to iPods at the Battle of Stalingrad and Asimo raising the flag at Iwo Jima.

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