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7 Sep 2024 11:21:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: It's not a photo...  
From: Tim Cook
Date: 24 May 2008 09:59:55
Message: <48381f5b$1@news.povray.org>
stbenge wrote:
> I don't get it. To me the image is not exactly photo-realistic. Am I 
> missing something, or do people commonly refer to CG images as "photos?"

Computer-generated images are classed under photography & photographs in 
the Dewey Decimal system, too.  Considering it falls under that best, 
vs. drawing, painting, or printmaking, it kinda makes sense.

-- 
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.digitalartsuk.com

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