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Still not there for me. The devil is in the detail - the sauce and the strawberries in the food picture, the books in the desk picture. Also, I still haven't se

by afro88 12y ago

Still not there for me. The devil is in the detail - the sauce and the strawberries in the food picture, the books in the desk picture. Also, I still haven't seen a rendering of a human being that looks genuinely photorealistic. I used to love that technology was pushing towards this point when I was a kid. Now it scares me. Maybe I'm getting old..

thomaseng 12y ago
These renderings of a girl look pretty damn realistic to me: http://vimeo.com/40602544 http://vimeo.com/40602544
- pja 12y ago
  Those are pictures of an adult, not a child. When you use the word "girl" to describe an adult woman you're implicitly belittling her. Don't be that guy.
  - goblin89 12y ago
    > Those are pictures of an adult, not a child. When you use the word "girl" to describe an adult woman you're implicitly belittling her. Don't be that guy. Sorry, I'm not a native English speaker (so I'm not confident enough to downvote or anything), but your judging this use of “girl” as female version of “boy”, ignoring the overall mode of expression, doesn't seem adequate. I would have no objections if thomaseng's comment was more formal: > I would consider these pictures of a girl quite lifelike But it's not. If I were the author, and the pictures were of a man, I'd totally say “guy”. Once you flip the gender, “guy” seems to become “girl”, not “woman”. (Again, given the overall informal style used.) And as for the word “guy”, it doesn't sound in any way belittling a grown-up man (and you just used it yourself).
    - pja 12y ago
      I would say that the male equivalent of "girl" is "boy", not "guy". The English language is often unhelpful in that exact equivalents of the word you want that exist for one gender don't exist for the other, or else carry other connotations. Master vs Mistress for instance.
      - barrkel 12y ago
        And the female equivalent of guy is girl. The word 'girl' genuinely has more shades than the submissive little box you want to put it in.
  - nkozyra 12y ago
    Did tumblr buy HN?
- afro88 12y ago
  The are very good. Knowing they're renderings though, you can see it in the face and hair. DanBC made an interesting comment - it would interesting to see renderings like these in a double blind test with photographs and see how well they stack up.
DanBC 12y ago
> the sauce and the strawberries in the food picture Be interesting if people could correctly tell which images are renders and which are real, with > 50% accuracy, if they were given 50 sample images. Because being told that an image is computer generated, and then saying "Yep, it's unrealistic" isn't particularly compelling argument.
- afro88 12y ago
  I stand by that what I've mentioned looks fake (especially the strawberries and the sauce) but I think that would be a great exercise. Your brain believes what it expects. I had the expectation that these were renderings so it was easy to pick out flaws.
callumprentice 12y ago
http://alteredqualia.com/xg/examples/deferred_skin.html http://alteredqualia.com/xg/examples/deferred_skin.html Maybe not completely realistic but getting pretty good, especially in a browser.

by afro88 12y ago

thomaseng 12y ago

These renderings of a girl look pretty damn realistic to me: http://vimeo.com/40602544 http://vimeo.com/40602544

pja 12y ago
Those are pictures of an adult, not a child. When you use the word "girl" to describe an adult woman you're implicitly belittling her. Don't be that guy.
- goblin89 12y ago
  > Those are pictures of an adult, not a child. When you use the word "girl" to describe an adult woman you're implicitly belittling her. Don't be that guy. Sorry, I'm not a native English speaker (so I'm not confident enough to downvote or anything), but your judging this use of “girl” as female version of “boy”, ignoring the overall mode of expression, doesn't seem adequate. I would have no objections if thomaseng's comment was more formal: > I would consider these pictures of a girl quite lifelike But it's not. If I were the author, and the pictures were of a man, I'd totally say “guy”. Once you flip the gender, “guy” seems to become “girl”, not “woman”. (Again, given the overall informal style used.) And as for the word “guy”, it doesn't sound in any way belittling a grown-up man (and you just used it yourself).
  - pja 12y ago
    I would say that the male equivalent of "girl" is "boy", not "guy". The English language is often unhelpful in that exact equivalents of the word you want that exist for one gender don't exist for the other, or else carry other connotations. Master vs Mistress for instance.
    - barrkel 12y ago
      And the female equivalent of guy is girl. The word 'girl' genuinely has more shades than the submissive little box you want to put it in.
- nkozyra 12y ago
  Did tumblr buy HN?
afro88 12y ago
The are very good. Knowing they're renderings though, you can see it in the face and hair. DanBC made an interesting comment - it would interesting to see renderings like these in a double blind test with photographs and see how well they stack up.

DanBC 12y ago

> the sauce and the strawberries in the food picture Be interesting if people could correctly tell which images are renders and which are real, with > 50% accuracy, if they were given 50 sample images. Because being told that an image is computer generated, and then saying "Yep, it's unrealistic" isn't particularly compelling argument.

afro88 12y ago
I stand by that what I've mentioned looks fake (especially the strawberries and the sauce) but I think that would be a great exercise. Your brain believes what it expects. I had the expectation that these were renderings so it was easy to pick out flaws.

callumprentice 12y ago

http://alteredqualia.com/xg/examples/deferred_skin.html http://alteredqualia.com/xg/examples/deferred_skin.html Maybe not completely realistic but getting pretty good, especially in a browser.