Gallery: Can You Tell if These Objects Are Real or Rendered?

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    Designers at Norwegian studio Skrekkogle created a series of photographs that look like digital renderings.
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    They built sets and used physical props to achieve a computer-generated aesthetic.
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    This reflective scene looks like it could have been designed in software.
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    In actuality, the physical objects were placed atop a shiny checkered pattern and shot with a bright flash.
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    These distorted teapots look like they were stretched and flattened using a computer.
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    Their weird shapes were 3-D printed and glued to the background to create the surrealist effect.
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    A cube built from shiny pearls.
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    Photographed with a beach background.
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