{"id":2698,"date":"2004-11-05T18:45:47","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T22:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/11\/05\/an-idea-whose-time-has-come-2\/"},"modified":"2004-11-05T18:45:47","modified_gmt":"2004-11-05T22:45:47","slug":"an-idea-whose-time-has-come-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/11\/05\/an-idea-whose-time-has-come-2\/","title":{"rendered":"An Idea Whose Time Has Come"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n
\n

One
\n year ago, the Dowbrigade
\n proposed a virtual Miss Universe<\/a> contest.  Well,
\n somebody was listening…<\/i><\/p>\n

Kaya (below) is ravishing. She has full lips,
\n long lashes, and a slightly upturned
\n nose.
\n Her expression
\n radiates
\n confidence
\n and
\n power,
\n and her
\n smooth skin
\n is well scrubbed and dotted with freckles. But she doesn’t have much
\n of a body. At all. In fact, she exists only from the neck up. Kaya
\n is a CG model, a 48,200-polygon beauty created by an artist in S?o Paulo,
\n Brazil. And she’s sure to be a finalist in the Miss Digital World beauty
\n pageant.<\/p>\n

Miss Digital World will be chosen in classic reality-TV
\n fashion – people can vote for their favorite contender until December
\n at missdigitalworld.com<\/a> or
\n via SMS. The winning creator gets five grand and a deal with Cerami’s
\n agency to receive a cut of the proceeds from
\n placement or licensing of the model. Alas, no tiara. Lets take a closer
\n look at a couple of the prime candidates.<\/p>\n

Mamegal<\/strong> (above)<\/p>\n

HEIGHT: 5’4"
\n WEIGHT: 102 pounds
\n POLYGON COUNT: 36,000
\n BORN: Tokyo, Japan
\n WARE SHE CAME FROM: 3D Studio Max 5.1, Character Studio, Brazil Rendering
\n System
\n MANAGER: Koji Yamagami
\n CLAIM TO FAME: Poster girl for Discreet’s 3D Studio Max Software
\n PERSONALITY PLUS: Driven, extroverted
\n WORKING ASSET: Roppongi-ready muscle tone<\/p>\n

Kaya<\/strong> (right)
\n
\n HEIGHT: 5’5"
\n WEIGHT: 121 pounds
\n POLYGON COUNT: 48,200
\n BORN: S?o Paulo, Brazil
\n WARE SHE CAME FROM: Maya 4.0, Photoshop; Dual AMD Athlon 1.7-GHz processor,
\n 1 GByte of RAM
\n MANAGER: Alceu Baptistao
\n CLAIM TO FAME: Best Character award at Animago Festival in Germany now
\n appearing: In the Future Face Exhibition at the London Science Museum
\n PERSONALITY PLUS: Clumsily funny, sometimes cocky
\n WORKING ASSET: "Her mouth is sexy, although big."<\/p>\n

Who
\n does the Dowbrigade endorse? We
\n declared last year<\/a>, and are not about
\n to change now.<\/em><\/p>\n

from Wired<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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