> There were actually many areas of necessity to develop computer graphics
> for films. There was, of course, the desire to create illusions that
> were closer-to-flawless than those created with other means. Digital
> manipulation meant that impossible creatures could appear to exist, that
> flaws and glitches could be painted out (say, an airplane that strays
> into the background of a film set in the 18th century), and that images
could
> be enhanced and corrected for greater aesthetic pleasure.
that's subjective...i happen to like those 'flaws'. wouldn't that be great if a tree that didn't look quite right could be altered to our whim? even those bonzai trees never quite turn out 'right'....damn if my girlfriend would do everything i tell her to do...argue with me when i want her to and agree with me when i want her to...that would be 'perfect'. wait she would have to do that without me telling her to do it. might be easier just to get a robot girlfriend.
> As for plastic and ceramic bowls, well, there are ceramics with
> extremely plastic properties (one of the benefits of the space
program), and
> plastics that simulate ceramics very well. Why have them? Well, let's
say you
> want dishware that looks nice, but you can't afford to buy high-end
ceramic
> dishware. If something feels like ceramic, looks like ceramic, but is
> actually a much cheaper kind of plastic, then why shouldn't someone use
> it?
if someone is into fake stuff then they should go for it. i just don't see the point in it.
> I look at it this way. I own a house that's about seventy to a hundred
> years old, depending on who's asked. (The city and the insurance company
> differ.) There's some woodwork trim here, and some of it is chestnut-- a
> species that's died out in this country. I'll be replacing it in the
> near future, and I'll probably be using red oak-- which is available,
> cheaper, and plentiful. And I'm sure that neighbors of mine will make
do with
> oak, or maple, or even engineered woods with chestnut-like veneers. I'm
sure
> we _could_ hunt down reclaimed chestnut wood trim, and hire expert wood
> finishers to refinish it so it's consistent throughout our houses, and
> maybe even get the _This Old House_ crew to come in and install it...
> but that's just too expensive for a lot of people.
>
> That's one nice thing about materials science and new technologies. They
> give people access to things they otherwise wouldn't have. It might not
> be what Cornelius Vanderbilt would've ordered for the Breakers, but
it's
> better than not having much choice at all.
like a robot girlfriend?
~M.E.
__________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com