Non-Photorealistic camera
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http://www.photo.net/learn/technology/mflash/merl-non-photo.html
I saw this article on slashdot (surprise!) and figured it may be of interest to those that don't frequent the site. Here is a blurb from the article:
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what does it do?
The multi-flash camera's non-photorealistic images look like line drawings, but have an advantage over hand made line drawings for they are able depict real-world scenes with precision and, most importanly, speed impossible for the human eye/hand. One may ask, why not use good ol' Photoshop filters to achieve these types of images? Multi-flash is able to detect variations and shape, while Photoshop filters are only able to translate variations and intensity of color. It does not produce intelligent stenciling like PhotoShop's posturization, but the results are similar and more successful.
Additionally, the multi-flash can detect shapes that an ordinary camera would not be able to replicate. For instance, a white shape on a white background would appear as a white plane if processed by a camera, or even the human eye. Multi-flash is able to detect depth discontinuities, through its four positions of flash, producing a line image of the white shape.
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I saw this article on slashdot (surprise!) and figured it may be of interest to those that don't frequent the site. Here is a blurb from the article:
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what does it do?
The multi-flash camera's non-photorealistic images look like line drawings, but have an advantage over hand made line drawings for they are able depict real-world scenes with precision and, most importanly, speed impossible for the human eye/hand. One may ask, why not use good ol' Photoshop filters to achieve these types of images? Multi-flash is able to detect variations and shape, while Photoshop filters are only able to translate variations and intensity of color. It does not produce intelligent stenciling like PhotoShop's posturization, but the results are similar and more successful.
Additionally, the multi-flash can detect shapes that an ordinary camera would not be able to replicate. For instance, a white shape on a white background would appear as a white plane if processed by a camera, or even the human eye. Multi-flash is able to detect depth discontinuities, through its four positions of flash, producing a line image of the white shape.
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Hmm, seems interesting enough. But isn't anything a few Photoshop filters couldn't do (so it seems).
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One may ask, why not use good ol' Photoshop filters to achieve these types of images? Multi-flash is able to detect variations and shape, while Photoshop filters are only able to translate variations and intensity of color. It does not produce intelligent stenciling like PhotoShop's posturization, but the results are similar and more successful.
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That does look pretty useful in some cases, and no doubt some mega-rich artist will get the technology before anyone else and produce some weird photos with it, and everyone will go "WOO!" then it will be forgotten in a year or so. Probably.
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