Noel Carboni wrote: I worry, though, with software that looks things up in databases and "fills in" the details with essentially false (or "best guess") information, where will this go... Imagine a courtroom 50 years from now with a blown up security image clearly showing what looks like a great match to the defendant's face, when in fact the original security capture just didn't have enough information to convict... -Noel 50 years? They do that now, and I know it's true because I have seen in TV progs like 24 and CSI. But being serious, it was surely not using look up tables when smoothing out the jaggies in the marble statue. Where bi-cubic was creating the 'affect' of straight lines by bluring them with aliasing, the SR has clean, sharp, high contrast lines. I agree it was not so clear cut with skin tones, and I imagine that's the rub of the matter. It kind of takes you back to magical debur demonstration at Adobe Max, or even third party applications like Topaz inFocus. You see them demonstrated on best case subject material, which is not the same as real world subject matter. I could never get the Topaz inFocus plugin to come even close to the demonstration on the Topaz site. As I have said before, I treat such things as black box tecnology and leave it up to clever folk like Chris to make it happen. I am just happy to use them when they become reality. [EDIT] Not that anyone cares or noticed, but I have not been posting much recently because of a couple of big video projects that had to be done by this weekend. Then I am overseas for a month, trying to keep clear of the Olymics in the UK.
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