27-02-2005 04:18									#91
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Not at the time that quote was made.

	27-02-2005 04:24									#92
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quote: 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.

	27-02-2005 07:28									#93
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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...

	27-02-2005 07:45									#94
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quote: 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.

	27-02-2005 09:52									#95
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quote: 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)?

	27-02-2005 10:19									#96
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quote: 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...