Friday, September 16, 2005

Microsoft Invents the Tantalus Field*

From the Microsoft Developer's Conference:

Microsoft researchers have come up with technology that can remove an image, say a person, from the foreground and then replicate the background that the no-longer-visible person was blocking. The technology, developed by Microsoft's China research lab, was on display at the expo hall at the Professional Developer Conference here.

Ah, these kids today (or tomorrow). In my day, we had to remove foreground objects and laboriously clone the background in by hand (and by Clone Tool). By gum, it was time-consuming, and we only had pre-G3 Macs and Photoshop 3.0, but we liked it!

*Name that Star Trek episode!

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