Anyone remember this...
 

This pic circulated a while back but talk died down pretty quickly. Could this be an actual photo and not a computer image? If so, there are major implications for a potential F5.

http://www.angelfire.com/ego/mylego0...dT04camaro.jpg

- Light reflections all over the body are way too complex to have been done in a 3D computer image unless you had dozens of light sources.
- Same with the headlights. That level of realism and reflection is never seen in a computer image unless it was painstakingly raytraced.
- The number of polygons needed to make the body so smooth looking would be way too high to be practical.
- The artist who supposedly made it (Radovan Varicak) usually only deals with hand drawn sketches.
- The little imperfections all over the body like the little black splotch halfway up the A-pillar would have had to be manually added in.
- Same with the big black blob through the drivers window and rear window.
- The wheels and tires are identical to SSR wheels and tires, which we know exist. They could easily be slapped on a life-size prototype. They look too real to have just been pasted into a picture, which is why they must be incredibly complex 3D wheels or actual photos of wheels.
- The tires even have micro-perfect tread and you can read GoodYear on 'em.
- The interior has WAY too much detail. To do all those complex shadows and a steering wheel of that detail would take days if not weeks.

If this was really a computer image, it wasn't done with an image enhancement program like Photoshop. It would have to be done from scratch in a 3D program. I deal with computer graphics frequently and I don't believe any artist spends THIS amount of detail on computer models.. There's no doubt in my mind that this is a photograph. Now I'm ready for my theory to be corroberated .. or shot down http://web.camaross.com/bb/wink.gif

Well... it does say right there in the snippit that it is computer generated... http://web.camaross.com/bb/wink.gif

Either way, it's probably fairly old, being that it is using that "Chevy Spear" styling across the nose, that I believe Lutz has said is ugly... (Thank goodness)

That being said, I hope a new Camaro carries over nothing as far as looks go from this idea... I think it is quirky and clumsy looking... well, that color is OK, they can use that anyway. http://web.camaross.com/bb/tongue.gif

[This message has been edited by Darth Xed (edited June 26, 2002).]

I always thought that one looked like a real mockup. If you squint its a great looking car, meaning the overall lines are pretty good, but the entire front end treatment sucks.

Could have been a design exercise done when the future of the F-body was still up in the air (meaning they were't 100% sure it would die)???

No picture shows up when I open the link.

Cut and paste Matt

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I think that is re-touched image . Look long and hard . I would about gaurantee that picture was originally of a SSR . There are areas of that car that look real , BUT , there are also several areas that look generated . Example ...the front seats look like a real photo , but the rear seats I think look generated . The headlights would have Very easy to do . It looks like the just used the SSR headlight to have a good starting point ...look at the cat eye in the center of the light ...same as a SSR headlight . I think the car is horrendous(sp?) but whoever re-touched that real photo did a awesome job .

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[This message has been edited by 90 Z28SS (edited July 06, 2002).]

I think it looks great from the hood back. It needs to lose that SSR front end.

that car with the muscle tone front end would be the perfect 5th Gen