You'll never look at a photograph the same way again

Discussion in 'Techforge' started by shootER, Oct 28, 2011.

  1. shootER

    shootER Insubordinate...and churlish Administrator

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    Amazing. :eek:

    The video (Vimeo, not YouTube, so I can't embed it here).


    This is pretty darn cool, but I could see where people could abuse it.
     
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  2. NAHTMMM

    NAHTMMM Perpetually sondering

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    Oh, so innocent . . . ;)
     
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  3. Nova

    Nova livin on the edge of the ledge Writer

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    That's pretty much the end of photographic proof of anything, right?

    The space aliens really did kill JFK?
    After all - there's a photo of it !!
     
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  4. tafkats

    tafkats scream not working because space make deaf Moderator

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    My guess is that as the technology to fake photographs improves, so too will the computer forensics to detect said fakery.
     
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    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    I really hate to tell you, but photographs haven't been useful as "proof" of anything for about twenty years now.
     
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  6. Amaris

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    I disagree, and I have photographic evidence.
     
    Amaris, Oct 29, 2011
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    Supermarket tabloids are going to be drooling over this.
     
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    I looked at it, it's pretty damn good. But I was able to spot small things in each one that gave it away. With multiple light sources there were missing shadow, other shadows were pointing the wrong way since there was more than one light source but the faked images only used one light source, or used alight source that wouldn't of cast a shadow in the particular spot.
     
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  9. Bailey

    Bailey It's always Christmas Eve Super Moderator

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    That's quite impressive, can see it having really useful applications in bluescreen work on tv shows.
     
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  10. Uncle Albert

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    I don't care what you say, those leaked photos of me and Christina Hendricks are real dammit!
    :rant:
     
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  11. We Are Borg

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    I thought this thread would about this:

    http://www.lytro.com/

    Which is my belated Christmas present to myself. :banana:
     
    We Are Borg, Oct 31, 2011
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