[A repost, due to WordPress weirdness – sorry about that. Note to self: don’t paste images into WordPress, always upload and insert them.]
I’m seeing this more and more in my neighborhood in the evening:
It’s the shadow of a tree on pavement, superimposed 3 times. It’s because they’ve been installing new LED streetlights with 3 bulbs.
Hard for me to photograph the light source well, but a reflection of some sort in the camera shows the three bulbs in the upper right:
It’s like the artifacts you see when anyone tries to approximate an area light with point lights. So with the advent of LEDs, I guess we won’t need light area sampling algorithms as much?
Maybe one for the Real Artifacts gallery.
Hi,
I have an entry in your “real or render?” gallery. I was sitting in this foyer and noticed how many tropes it had from CGI:
– blocky objects in primitive forms, as if the modeller were lazy;
– many specular surfaces
– cheesy logo
– flat colour
– unconvincing textures
– contrived lighting
http://imgur.com/a/QfGVe
It really looks as if the architect’s visualisation had come to life. I hope you’ll consider including it in your gallery.
For people who want to live in virtual reality all the time! Here’s another project you might enjoy: http://skrekkogle.com/still-file/
The gallery at http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/realartifacts/ is not mine, it’s Morgan McGuire’s, so I’ll let him know.