Faux-tography:  

"Once this new technology gets out there, we're going to have a
helluva time telling what's real and what's unreal." (Tom
Wolzien, vice president at NBC: Brand, 1988)


Image processing technologies have made it possible to manipulate
the content of digitized film and video sources so that its
virtually impossible to distinguish between factual and
fictitious representations of events.  The images are dissected
into thousands of component parts called pixels (picture
elements).  Each pixel can be individually modified in terms of
color, brightness, and density.  This means that a system user
can seamlessly edit digital images, changing the information
content by deleting existing components, modifying the
interrelationship of component parts, or by merging new
information into a scene.  Even the "National Geographic
Magazine" has used the technology to manipulate two Egyptian
pyramids in order to make a stronger graphic composition for the
cover of the publication.  It's clear that the technology can be
effectively utilized for more sinister objectives by less
scrupulous end users.

<ffile19>   Cautions
<ffile22>   Slickness
<ffile51>   Animation and 3-D Graphics
<ffile55>   Projected Holography
<ffile64>   Computing Virtual Reality