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From: GrimDude
Date: 1 Jan 2005 23:05:59
Message: <41d77327@news.povray.org>
"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
news:41d72b3a$1@news.povray.org...
> Oskar Bertrand wrote:
>> I'll take pretty over photorealistic any day.
>
> Part of "photorealistic" includes "not bizarrely surreal" methinks. It's 
> hard to call something "photorealistic" that is intentionally designed to 
> also be impossible. :-)
>

I have to disagree. Some of the best textures I've made were created using 
unrealistic (and thus impossible) conditions. I have found, as I have often 
said before, that attempting to 'break' the rules of proper code sometimes 
makes things better.

- Grim


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