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I chose these three images because they conveyed the struggle between reality and the artificial. All of these pictures are an artist's 3D rendering of an environment, but they look so real that it is difficult to tell the difference. Technology has become so advanced that artists are able to recreate actual places and locations almost to their exact specifications. They look so real that many of the movies, videos and commercials made today actually use virtual backgrounds and special effects that almost cannot be discerned from reality. This opens a huge door for creativity that allows people to go farther and do things that were previously thought impossible. However, many also think it detracts from the authenticity of the image and would rather opt for basic reality. But this begs the question: aren't images an artist's or machines rendering of reality anyways? Is one image more real than another? As the age old saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.