Re: PHOTO-3D digest 1441

[P3D Lew Clayman/K Szafran <kandlew@xxxxxxxxx>]

>In the future it may turn out to be easier to keep track of each kind of
>effect by retaining the original name of the effect even though it's being
>done in a computer environment. This reduces confusion in the production
>process. A matte painting then serves the same function even though it may
>not be painted on a piece of glass. It could still be painted by the same
>artists who are highly expert in creating these images. I've seen some of
>them and they are very nice. If the function is appreciably different then
>it can have a different name.
>

Hear, hear!  Let's not get caught up in names.  Much technological advance
involves the carrying over (or perhaps one should say generalizing) of older
vocabulary.  This is why a bicycle has a "saddle" and a car has a "trunk"
and a data stream has "carriage returns" and "line feeds."  It is a
convenient shorthand, and a useful device for drawing the very real
analogies that exist between platforms.  It is convention, that's all.

So perhaps they'll be called "digitally implemented virtual matte image
structures" - but I hope not.  Maybe I'm just PC-challenged?



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