Rendering Synthetic Objects Into Old Photographs 134
First time accepted submitter IDarkISwordI writes "A new abstract headed to SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 provides a method for rapid execution of computer graphics, synthesized into photographs with accurate lighting and physics based on limited input from a user and interpretation by their code." The results are impressive; hard to watch the video demo (on linked page) without boggling.
Virtual house dressing (Score:5, Insightful)
This is going to be very useful for real estate sales. No need to move furniture into an empty house for the pictures.
That is indeed quite impressive (Score:3, Insightful)
Especially getting the lighting and the shadows to fit the rest of the image.