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Quartz Extreme Demo Movie

Posted by pudge on from the i-will-buy-that-for-a-dollar dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "The Swedish web site MacNytt has a QuickTime demo of Quartz Extreme (the graphics acceleration technology in the upcoming Mac OS X "Jaguar" release). It is impressive footage, truly impressive. Now I can watch DVDs at a microscopic level!"

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  1. Before everyone starts their bitching... by Lally+Singh · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Yes, Quartz Extreme requires a 32MB AGPx2 video card. That's because everything is now rendered to OpenGL and then the card takes care of the drawing from there. So, it simply _can't_ work on older graphics cards that don't do much 3D optimization, like the Rage128.

    So, you can't do lots of cool little tricks. Jaguar does have plenty of other graphics optimizations. I've seen it fly on iBooks. It's simply faster. OS X has up until now been worked on for functionality, not speed. Now Apple's optimizing it, and it is crazy fast. CRAZY FAST.

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  2. A much better QE example video. by johnpg · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here's a better one. It's 20mb. Someone please MIRROR it as I don't want to be slashdotted.

    http://207.182.242.235/jaguardemo1.mov (right click and save is probably wise).

    I made that a few days ago (posted the link on macrumors), to see if that QE video was for real. It was, but there are some issues with sound. My footage has sound, so you can hear when it cuts out. QE is not as wonderful as the original video made it seem, but it isn't bad either. There's also a comparision at the end trying to do the same things under 10.1.4.

    Again, please be kind and mirror that video.

  3. Re:I still don't get it by Molz · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There was also a demo shown (I can't find it now though) of the OpenGL Teapot and some other figures floating around on the screen. They were infront of a DVD and the DVD was reflecting on them. It was pretty awsome.

    The transparent terminals on top of the DVD are pretty cool too, although I think the biggest improvement that QE will bring is the increased speed.

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