Designing effective pictures: is photographic realism the only answer?

ion you don't want to do that. Here's the theory of relativity. This is a space-time diagram. Again, no realistic object. We did a sort of two-dimensional cartoon of it and we made it look flat and two-dimensional because when we extrude it in the time dimension we wanted to have only three dimensions to deal with. Again, mathematical abstractions, things for which there is no real thing. The extrusions are made out of transparent polygons, but the lighting and so forth doesn't make them look like they're really made of shiny plastic. It's just something that you can see, that there's a trail left behind on these things. Here's some of my realistic cartoon animation. Again, we've seen a lot of attempts at realistic human faces, which is an interesting research topic, but you can do really interesting cartoons by making them very cartoony. In fact, this is a subject which I