P3D Computer Graphics plagerism?

["H a r o l d B a i z e" <baize@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree that it would be great to have a separate 
competition for computer stereo, but until there 
are enough entries for such a competition, we should 
classify them as contemporary.

Ron Fredrickson wrote:
>The contemporary award in the Lighthouse judging last 
>weekend was given to a computer-generated image, no part 
>of which was created by the maker--- only the manipulation 
>was done by that person in order to create a stereo slide.

I can't believe they gave an award to someone just for 
rendering someone else's image in stereo. That is like 
buying some great old stereo slides, remounting them and 
then entering them in competition. When I create 
stereo computer images I don't even borrow object models
from other artists (although I use Poser for human bodies, 
and I always give credit to Fractal Design for them). The 
code needed to produce some beautiful images are available 
on the web and I like to render then in stereo, but I would
never present the product as being my own. I think the use
of other's work is one of the things that makes people 
uncomfortable with computer graphics in competitions.

Harolddd




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