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From: dmt@mtgzz.UUCP (d.m.tutelman)
Newsgroups: net.graphics
Subject: Re: Image processing <--> Graphics
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Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 11:41:23 EDT
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Sounds like an interesting discussion topic.  I'll try a shot at it.

I think of IMAGE PROCESSING as that area of GRAPHICS that concerns itself
with projections (usually 2D) of the REAL WORLD.  (A lot of graphics
work is concerned with SYNTHETIC pictures.)  The sorts of processing
that we're used to considering "image processing" is enhancehent
and/or recognition of what the original real-world object was.

This group tends to deal with COMPUTER GRAPHICS and COMPUTER IMAGE
PROCESSING, but (as Nitin rightly points out) eyeglasses do
image processing of the "enhancement" type, and I know some
advertising types who are "graphics" experts and don't know thing one
about computers.  (This is NOT a proposal to broaden submissions
to this group; MY interests are computer graphics.  Just pointing
out that our use of the language is a little parochial.)

As for net.graphics.image, I agree that we ought to wait until
there are enough postings that there are complaints of clutter.

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