Photo realistic computer generated images.

[SgtFury]

I was having a discussion at work today and i can't remember all the details properly to back up what i was saying and was wondering if anyone else read the same thing.

When Final fantasy the spirits within came out there was an article about how computer generated images were not accepted if they were too close to the real thing. There was a graph with it showing a "well" effect closer you got to real, but i can't find anything on the net about it.

Can anyone remember this?

 

[BiG D]

Looking for the term "uncanny valley" perhaps?

 

[VibroAxe]

Don't remember a link with FF, but I know of the phenomen well, and yes, I believe D is correct in the "Uncanny Valley"

 

[Huung]

Heh, how weird. We just last week covered this on our uni course (Games Computing).

Its the idea that as you get closer and closer to "perfection" a human will notice more and more flaws in the image/animation, as we view how far it is from being human, rather than how good it is as a piece of CGI.

Youtube link to the first part of 7 in a series about the uncanny valley, charts and all

 

[Wol]

photo realistic images you say

The stuff in the hall of fame on there still stuns me when I see it. And it seems that no matter how hard I look at that, It's really hard to find a flaw in that.

 

[DocBot]

I posted this in my "virals" thread, rather unsettling actually...

edit: totally unrelated, of course. But sharing is caring

 

[SgtFury]

After posting this, i realised it was the Uncanny Valley cheers guys.

 

[Traxata]

photo realistic images you say

The stuff in the hall of fame on there still stuns me when I see it. And it seems that no matter how hard I look at that, It's really hard to find a flaw in that.

No scan lines on the CRT.

 

[Wol]

No scan lines on the CRT.

This is a still image, not video. You don't usually get scan lines if you're taking the photo properly.

see something like: http://www.cfultd.com/images/Black Dell 17CRT.JPG, which is obviously a photo, rather than shopped.

 

[Huung]

If we're going to be really picky... The parallax mapping on the front desk (mainly the keyboard and drawer handles) is a bit lacking