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Comment Three Dee (Score 2) 66

I'd like to see one that constructs a 3D model. Perhaps it could use a genetic algorithm (GA) to breed a 3D model that can best represent the most actual specimens of the target object type.

It may be a lot of computations, however, because one is not just running genetic algorithms, but also rotating all the candidate 3D models and lighting conditions to see which best fits the actual specimen images PER GA candidate PER specimen. Perhaps a 3D thumbnail version can be used to for initial placement estimations to be fine-tuned with a fuller model.

Then you got spot and texture variations within specimens. You have to model varying textures, not average them out. But even if it ignores texture & spots to simplify things, a 3D shape model result would be cool.

Comment Flat is where it's at? (Score 1) 181

I don't get the flat design. We have all that graphics capability now, yet are going back to the 80's GUI look? What's next, pixellation? I like shadows and gradations and metals and wood and marble and textures; screw the flat fad. (Excluded temping jokes about "flat chicks".)

And get off my lumpy, textured lawn!

(Well, okay, a Trek NG GUI would be cool...for a while.)

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