Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

The Future of Real-Time Graphics

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the art-at-many-frames-per-second dept.

Bender writes "This article lays out nicely the current state of real-time computer graphics. It explains how movie-class CG will soon be possible on relatively inexpensive consumer graphics cards, considers the new 'datatype rich' graphics chips (R300 and NV30), and provides a context for the debate shaping up over high-level shading languages in OpenGL 2.0 and DirectX 9. Worth reading if you want to know where real-time graphics is heading."

3 of 250 comments (clear)

  1. this article looks Familiar by krog · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/11/157207 &mode=thread&tid=126

    same shit, different day. every time a /. article is repeated, God clubs a baby seal with an angel's lost wings.

    --
    Cretin - a powerful and flexible CD reencoder
  2. Remember the days... by qurob · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    Of when 1 guy could code a game in a month, down in his parents basement, using graph paper to design 'sprites' ?

    Fast-forward 15 years...

    "Remember when it only took 4 CGI animators, 5 texture artists, and 6 3D modellers to create the cutscenes in a game?"

  3. Re:Just thinking about it makes me ill. by moronga · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Just a few more years and the transition to featureless games with cool graphics but no game play will be complete.

    I always think the same thing when I play Mario 64, Zelda: OoT, Metal Gear Solid, Vagrant Story, Neverwinter Nights, Pikmin, Final Fantasy [whatever], Klonoa, Gunvalkyrie, Gran Turismo, or Resident Evil.

    And don't get me started on Warcraft III. That actually requires you to *think*. What's up with that? Give me gameplay, dammit, not a frickin' math test.