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- From: jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman)
- Subject: Re: Legal Visualization
- In-Reply-To: andyrose@netcom.com's message of Tue, 01 Sep 92 19:17:53 GMT
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- Date: 1 Sep 92 22:42:03
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- Legal viz is the ethically amorphous line of work I find myself in.
-
- Legal vis is becoming a very big area, ethically amorphous or not.
- Failure Analysis Associates and others in the "forensic engineering"
- business are making wide use of computer generated imagery to
- demonstrate *potential* scenarios to juries. Even in the recent
- Mitchell brothers fratricide-among-porno-kings case, the DA used a
- computer simulation of the shooting. It was the subject of some legal
- wrangling and complaints about the cost to taxpayers. I think part
- was disallowed.
-
- But Effective? I remember seeing a simulation by Failure a few years
- back demonstrating how wind shear *could* have caused an air crash.
- Very effective. After all, seeing is believing.
-
- Safe prediction: synthetic computer graphics will come to dominate
- multimedia visuals and those who believe them blindly will become
- mindless drones. Fortunately, I don't believe that many will. And
- fewer will with time. Photorealistic images and animations no longer
- imply reality.
-
- Crimson VGX is really a dreamboat
-
- I won't debate this.
-
- -jim helman
- jimh@surreal.asd.sgi.com
- 415.390.1151
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