3D ETHICS

Speaking of ethics in 3D might call for a (pre) historical review on how it started and progressed throughout time, probably as a specific quest in occidental art.

But this would and will be treated elsewhere in another chapter (history).

Our concern here is, specifically, digital 3D which started as soon as the third dimension became accessible, quite a short time ago.

Since then, not only the progression went on fast and faster, but it went through the exact same pattern as analogical creation.

The aim (well, in fact one of them) was, is and will be realistic rendering up to a point where it would be impossible to distinguish a photographic image from a digital construction.

There we are!

Digital constructions became a source of inspiration and model for real (albeit totally analogic) people.

Plastic surgery (pun included) has many positive aspects and will be considered in another chapter.

It also generates monsters...

Not the freakish dismorphophobic people but actors, actresses regarded as the acme of aesthetics, beauty, et c.

One can hardly find today non-modified people.

Seeing them in a historical movie would be like watching Julius Caesar with a cell phone!

When 3D artists create characters, they are trying to have them look natural yet enhansed.

They are, of course, free to design whatever they like.

It becomes awkward when real people are remodelled to ressemble digital character.

It will become monstruous when 3D artist will take as models those who have been so deeply unnaturally modified.

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Who is Nerfertiti?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefertiti
http://www.antikforever.com/Egypte/Reines/nefertiti.htm
http://theti.cheri.free.fr/Nefertiti.htm
http://www.crystalinks.com/nefertiti.html
http://www.akhet.co.uk/nefertit.htm
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/nefertiti/history/history.html