
Graphics Turing Test

In computer graphics the Graphics Turing Test is a variant of the Turing Test, the twist being that a human judge viewing and interacting with an artificially generated world should be unable to reliably distinguish it from reality.
The original formulation of the test is:
The "Graphics Turing Scale" of computer power is then defined as the computing power necessary to achieve success in the test. It was estimated in as 1036.8 TFlops peak and 518.4 TFlops sustained. Actual rendering tests with a Blue Gene supercomputer showed that current supercomputers are not up to the task scale yet.
A restricted form of the graphic Turing test has been investigated, where test subjects look into a box and try to tell whether the contents are real or virtual objects. For the very simple case of scenes with a cardboard pyramid or a styrofoam sphere, subjects were not able to reliably tell reality and graphics apart.