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<p>[QUOTE="rick, post: 95919, member: 1235"]I think the real problem is entropy. There is no real algorithm to determine what 'normal wear' is, because if you're talking about imaging at such a refined state that the softwear alone can determine grade designation with any accuracy, you're talking serious abnormalities that the software has to be programmed to assimilate. Then you can only allow for so much variation before the software can no longer determine between one grade from the next in sequence.</p><p> </p><p>If you can get past that, which I think would be serious business, by itself, then you have the problems already mentioned. How can a computer software determine what is cleaned and what is circulated worn or corroded or otherwise intentionally damaged?</p><p> </p><p>I would grant that computer imaging can be introduced to the process, if and when it is cost affordable, but I think we are a LONG way off from computers taking over the process entirely.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rick, post: 95919, member: 1235"]I think the real problem is entropy. There is no real algorithm to determine what 'normal wear' is, because if you're talking about imaging at such a refined state that the softwear alone can determine grade designation with any accuracy, you're talking serious abnormalities that the software has to be programmed to assimilate. Then you can only allow for so much variation before the software can no longer determine between one grade from the next in sequence. If you can get past that, which I think would be serious business, by itself, then you have the problems already mentioned. How can a computer software determine what is cleaned and what is circulated worn or corroded or otherwise intentionally damaged? I would grant that computer imaging can be introduced to the process, if and when it is cost affordable, but I think we are a LONG way off from computers taking over the process entirely.[/QUOTE]
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