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Rendering Synthetic Objects Into Old Photographs

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Too real by adolf · · Score: 5, Informative

    True, this is much more advanced technology and seems to be amazingly effective, but a good photoshop editor has been able to fool the public for quite a long time now.

    The best part about this tech is that it does not require a "good" photoshop editor to sort out the light paths and shadows/reflections/etc manually, but just a person willing to graphically describe the scene using a GUI. After that, arbitrary 3D objects can be more-or-less added arbitrarily with uncanny realism.

    This includes, perhaps unfortunately, realtors.

    (And to the English Nazi(s) reading this: "graphically" and "GUI" are not redundant terms in this context.)

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