On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:00:48 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> Yeah, but only with human intervention. You don't just press a button
>>> and out pops an image with colours that correctly match the original.
>> 
>> As the original is B&W, that doesn't make sense...
> 
> I meant you can't just give a machine a BW picture of a tree and have it
> automatically know to turn it green. That's impossible. 

I don't know that to be the case.  Again, a case of one's ability to 
fathom how something like that is done doesn't translate to "there's no 
way it could possibly be done".

> You must have a
> human there, and they must know what the hell the colours are supposed
> to be.

Maybe.  Maybe not.  Depends on how advanced the technology is.  It 
certainly isn't an *easy* problem to solve, I'll grant that.  
Impossible?  Smarter people than me have figured out how to do things I 
thought weren't possible.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Jim

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