[photo-3d] Re: CGI

[JNorman805@xxxxxxx]

Bob Maxey writes:

<<National Geographic once offered it's readers a cover that was
pieced together from digital images; and long before any of us had the
means or knowledge to create digital images of any merit.>>

As I recall, it was not exactly "pieced together," but modified to create a vertical format to fit the cover from a horizontal photograph, about 15 years ago.  If memory serves, it involved the repositioning of Egyptian pyramids, and it was done using an incredibly expensive "sytex" machine.  It caused a firestorm of controversy among those of us (me included) who believed it was a giant jump down the slippery slope of faked photojournalism.  Can you imagine anyone getting so upset about so innocent a modification now? Is seeing still believing?  Does anyone even care???

Jim Norman