Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: Dan Hoey <haoyuep@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:42:20 -0500
Subject: Re: attn scott dorsey

Ace Lightning wrote:
> Dan Hoey wrote:
> >Ace Lightning wrote:
> >> that's impressive. well, the Nagra is impressive, and the drawing
> >> indicates that someone has either severe OCD or way too much free
> >> time.

> >Or perhaps not quite enough free time, since the wireframe has so
> >many artifacts that should be filled in by the rendering engine, like
> >the diffuse reflections of the front knobs and the specular
> >reflections off the tape.  And what's with those screw heads that
> >have their slots blanked out in the wireframe.  Near the right side
> >there's a reflection of a slotted screw on the tape, but the slot is
> >missing on the screw itself.

> >Imprécis.

> i suspect that the "wireframe" began with the photograph being
> subjected to the "find edges" and/or "sharpen edges" filters in
> Photoshop.

My point exactly.  The postprocessing, as I noticed was sloppy, in that
screw heads were replaced by wireframes of cylinders without slots,
and the reflections were not cleaned up.  To get a good reverse-
engineered wireframe requires someone with a bit more free time.

Dan "Slowly I turned..." Hoey