Cited on HN 5 times, 2017–2026, never outright recommendedscore 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
Invoked as a joke whenever AI image reconstruction or enhancement is discussed.
A one-minute scene from the film Enemy of the State showing absurdly implausible image enhancement, with freezing, rotating, zooming and focusing on a video.
I've never forgotten this SIGGRAPH demo from almost twenty years ago, in which the authors effectively switch camera and light source computationally (... in a static scene) [1] Ever since then, I have viewed scenes such as the "lingerie store scene" from Enemy of the State [2] with a little bit less eye rolling... [1] - [link] [2] - [this video]
> the NSA not strictly having it's own wet-works arm doesn't make [the movie Enemy of the State's] 90-00's portrayal as a semi-omnipotent foe any less depressingly accurate I love that movie, but let's not say things we can't take back. [this video] :)
Anyone remember this scene from Enemy of The State (1998)? [this video] Jon Voight: "Can the computer take us around to the other side?" Jack Black: "It can HYPOTHESIZE" :)
Reminds me of that scene [1] from Enemy of the State where they "Rotate us 75 degrees around the vertical" in one of those "enhance, enhance" tropes. [1] [this video]
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