hey and hello everybody again (haven't been here since 2001 :(

Sir Charles, you are dreaming. Some months ago I saw this program that was
called "img2pov" and I said WOOOW!!!!, but then I downloaded it and it
turned out that the program made a sphere for every pixel in the image....
(boooo), which is still good, but doesn't go near what you are talking
about. It will be really difficult to write such a program (an AI program?),
but if you find anything about such a thing, let us all know. ;D

bye bye





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>     I had a neat thought- what if we write an AI program that looks at a
scene,
> maybe through two cameras, then renders what it sees into POV code?  I
know that
> this sounds outlandish at first consideration, but I suppose that what I
am
> getting at is this- how much compression do we get from, for instance, JPG
> versus GIF, or TIF, or BMP?  Now, think of the inherent compression in POV
code,
> and then consider that if we could make a program "smart" enough to look
at the
> scene and then figure it out closely enough, we could get some really
amazing
> compression factors.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Chip Shults
> My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip
>
>

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