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7 Sep 2024 11:21:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: It's not a photo...  
From: stbenge
Date: 24 May 2008 15:23:06
Message: <48386b1a$1@news.povray.org>
Tim Cook wrote:
> 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.

Do parts of the 'net operate under the DDS? If not, why would my image 
show up as a photograph? Alternately, if my image turned up in a 
library, how did it get there? Hmmm...

Sam


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