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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.

2 of 134 comments (clear)

  1. Virtual house dressing by Animats · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is going to be very useful for real estate sales. No need to move furniture into an empty house for the pictures.

  2. That is indeed quite impressive by No,+I+am+Spratacus! · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Especially getting the lighting and the shadows to fit the rest of the image.