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1. Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 04:22:34 JST Adrian Cochrane

   You may instinctually recognize it, but what exactly does it mean for an effect to look "computer-generated?"

   We've by now overcome most of the limitations of the technology, but a tell which remains (especially as we overwork our CG artists) is inaccurate physics. CG artists spend massive effort perfecting every pixel, & in doing so they can lose track of the right balance between realism & exaggeration. I'm impressed when they don't!

   Or their physics engine might not be enabled.

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   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 04:28:43 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     What looks iconically CG tends to be lighting looking a bit off. Like, say, plastic. Because to maximize parallelism the Depth Buffering Algorithm used very approximate formulas, though we've now overcome this with Recursive Raytracing!

     Also if you don't put enough human or computer effort in, animations can look a bit stiff especially especially in the early days. But it will always look smooth thanks to interpolation!

     2/2 Fin! Tomorrow: vector graphics.