Still not there for me. The devil is in the detail - the sauce and the strawberries in the food picture, the books in the desk picture. Also, I still haven't seen a rendering of a human being that looks genuinely photorealistic.
I used to love that technology was pushing towards this point when I was a kid. Now it scares me. Maybe I'm getting old..
I stand by that what I've mentioned looks fake (especially the strawberries and the sauce) but I think that would be a great exercise. Your brain believes what it expects. I had the expectation that these were renderings so it was easy to pick out flaws.
The are very good. Knowing they're renderings though, you can see it in the face and hair.
DanBC made an interesting comment - it would interesting to see renderings like these in a double blind test with photographs and see how well they stack up.
Those are pictures of an adult, not a child. When you use the word "girl" to describe an adult woman you're implicitly belittling her. Don't be that guy.
> Those are pictures of an adult, not a child. When you use the word "girl" to describe an adult woman you're implicitly belittling her. Don't be that guy.
Sorry, I'm not a native English speaker (so I'm not confident enough to downvote or anything), but your judging this use of “girl” as female version of “boy”, ignoring the overall mode of expression, doesn't seem adequate. I would have no objections if thomaseng's comment was more formal:
> I would consider these pictures of a girl quite lifelike
But it's not.
If I were the author, and the pictures were of a man, I'd totally say “guy”. Once you flip the gender, “guy” seems to become “girl”, not “woman”. (Again, given the overall informal style used.)
And as for the word “guy”, it doesn't sound in any way belittling a grown-up man (and you just used it yourself).
I would say that the male equivalent of "girl" is "boy", not "guy".
The English language is often unhelpful in that exact equivalents of the word you want that exist for one gender don't exist for the other, or else carry other connotations. Master vs Mistress for instance.
I used to love that technology was pushing towards this point when I was a kid. Now it scares me. Maybe I'm getting old..