http://sortingoutscience.net Science for people who never knew it could be interesting Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:56:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://sortingoutscience.net/2012/01/27/casual-friday-inserting-objects-into-existing-imagery/ http://sortingoutscience.net/2012/01/27/casual-friday-inserting-objects-into-existing-imagery/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:30:44 +0000 Sam Wise http://sortingoutscience.net/?p=1574 So let's say you've got a photograph of some place, and you really wish it contained something that wasn't present at the time the image was taken. A recent presentation at SIGGRAPH shows how to do just that in a realistic way, and Photoshop isn't involved...

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