She's not real?!!?

[Skanky Burns]

Not at the time that quote was made.

[Flandrien]

Originally posted by shawnmmcc
I cannot remember the programmer who pioneered this approach, but he has been getting some phenomenal results.

Really sorry, but the true pioneers were not programmers but painters.
Take a look at the work of Jan Vermeer for example.

[Lul Thyme]

Really sorry but that completly different
you cannont compare what programmers and painters are doing...
Painters dont need to know anything about physics, they can just try to copy what they see, while the programmers are trying to reproduce the CAUSE to get the same effect.
Technology has overtaken painters in their scientific job (photography) ages ago, but this is different...

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Lul Thyme
Really sorry but that completly different
you cannont compare what programmers and painters are doing...
Painters dont need to know anything about physics, they can just try to copy what they see, while the programmers are trying to reproduce the CAUSE to get the same effect.
Technology has overtaken painters in their scientific job (photography) ages ago, but this is different...

Painting is not always just "painting what you see" (more often then not it's painting what you don't see) and it often does involve an understanding and even reproduction of the "cause", as you call it.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Ari Rahikkala
When was the last time you saw the bottom of a lake through water from that angle? As far as I know lakes are supposed to be *blue*, not some sort of greenish brownish light cyan (can you tell I had problems figuring out what I should call that colour )?

Bottom of the lake? I thought the angle is human height (~2m)?

[Lul Thyme]

Originally posted by General Ludd



Painting is not always just "painting what you see" (more often then not it's painting what you don't see) and it often does involve an understanding and even reproduction of the "cause", as you call it.

I know I was exageratting a little bit, but I still believe no human painting can compare to rendering an image by a computer algorithm, even closely...