[HN Gopher] Photography's new bag of tricks (1984)
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Photography's new bag of tricks (1984)
Author : achairapart
Score : 9 points
Date : 2023-06-02 20:58 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| verisimi wrote:
| > The National Aeronautics and Space Administration regularly
| employs similar techniques to clarify images transmitted from
| outer space. The computer can sharpen fuzzy pictures or add color
| to satellite pictures of land masses so that it is easier to
| decipher the details.
|
| lololol
|
| > It is no accident that unfamiliar environments such as outer
| space or the inside of a computer, with its high-tech components,
| have been favored for the computer-generated segments of movies.
|
| > In search of aids to more realistic simulation, researchers
| comb the various branches of mathematics, and even art. For
| instance, Geoffrey G. Gardner of Grumman Aerospace in Bethpage,
| N.Y., has been analyzing Impressionist painting techniques in
| order to understand how it was possible to use such large brush
| strokes and still represent the essence of a scene without
| reproducing unnecessary detail. Gardner would like to apply such
| a technique to the computer.
|
| > Though no researcher has yet synthesized an image of a human
| being that anyone would mistake for a photograph of a person -
| real or fictional - scientists at the University of Pennsylvania
| Computer Graphics Research Facility have created a humanlike
| figure that moves on a video screen through zero gravity like an
| astronaut. This figure will be used for tests within a simulated
| space shuttle, such as checking on the size of passageways and
| the accessibility of instrument panels.
|
| hehe
|
| > Recently, Whitney says, his production company used the data
| from a NASA photograph to simulate the surface of Jupiter for the
| soon-to-be- released movie ''2010,'' a sequel to the film
| ''2001.''
|
| > "If we really want to, we can convince folks that it's real" ..
| What interests Smith is "going to be to find out how far you can
| go away from reality and still have people follow you."
|
| quite far indeed!
| psychomugs wrote:
| Now more than ever, it would behoove photo-makers and -viewers -
| i.e. everyone - to read Sontag's "In Plato's Cave" as a reminder
| that there is nary a thing as a real photograph.
|
| https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/chengphotoarth1100f2019/fi...
| klysm wrote:
| Is the photograph the thing that isn't real?
| yieldcrv wrote:
| > Whitney feels that researchers are overcoming the computational
| obstacles and that computers, despite their considerable expense,
| have already been proved cost-effective. With a computer, one
| will need a much smaller movie staff. Lighting crews, carpenters
| and cameramen are expendable. One can film in any weather and
| dispense with travel to exotic sites.
|
| thanks for posting this! in reality over the last 40 years,
| movies got bigger and employed far more people
| nomel wrote:
| > With a computer, one will need a much smaller movie staff.
|
| Part of the problem is that their estimate for the number of
| computers was off by many orders of magnitude. In a decade or
| two, with all of the generative tools, they might be much more
| wrong on the compute side of things, but more right on the
| direct-staffing side.
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