>>2what about automating the path-following of a robotic arm (holding a knife, for instance), for cutting clothes and metals at a factory? or holding an ink dispenser and drawing a conpanys logo on its product?
in essence it is the same process as that of drawing which primates use, so dont tell me the process itself is useless
it has not been subsumed, it is still used for hypothetical scenes (which photography doesn't)
and im sure 3d computer graphics has a very limited range of possible output