Attached Link: http://www.vfxhq.com/spotlight96/9612c.html

Actually, after a brief Google search, I could only find one real attempt at defining photorealism (see link). I also came across the term "synthetic photorealism" which reminded me that a lot of effects, especially in high-end programs may rely on shaders and other techniques that are completely computer generated and don't rely on photos at all to produce a "realistic" rendering. I agree with your basic premise that, in the Poser world at least, the term usually implies a texture produced from high resolution photographs of a model. I think though that using the definition - indistinguishable from a photograph of a real person/object, that is not necessarily the case. Presumably, a talented artist working with the right rendering tools could produce such an image without using a single photograph as source material. Of course, by that definition, very little produced by Poser or any system really meets the criterion. A few, like Final Fantasy certainly are impressive and Catharina's or SteffyZZ's texture maps are probably as close as I've seen in Poser.

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