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NVIDIA's Lead Scientist Interviewed

Posted by Zonk on from the he-makes-shiny-things dept.

rtt writes "bit-tech.net has up an interview with NVIDIA's chief scientist, David Kirk, about the PlayStation 3, next-generation architectures and what to expect in PC gaming. From the article: 'We're going to see the next generation of shader-based games. At the first generation, we saw people using a shader to emulate the hardware pipeline, and finding "Hey - this really is programmable". After that, they tried to do a few things with more lights, using perhaps eight instead of ten. Then they started to write material shaders, and they made great cloth and metal effects that we saw. People are now starting to change the lighting model, and are exploring the things that they can do with that.'"

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  1. DUMBLEDORE DIES IN THE NEW HARRY POTTER BOOK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://zeikfried.no-ip.com/
    Dumbledore dies in the new Harry potter book.

    1. Re:DUMBLEDORE DIES IN THE NEW HARRY POTTER BOOK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The URL is not working and you forgot to tell that Snape was the half-blood prince!

    2. Re:DUMBLEDORE DIES IN THE NEW HARRY POTTER BOOK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Wait, are you saying that Dumbledore dies at the end of The Half Blood Prince?

      Anyone over the age of 7 caught reading any Harry Potter book should be shot on site. Fucking retards.

  2. Re:Of course by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ah the fanboys, slashdot wouldn't be complete..

  3. Re:Ha ha, lights. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Comment like this could only come from a Nintendo fanboy.. insignificance complex.. gotta love slashdot.

  4. So what does this mean? by DroopyStonx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, that millions of dollars will be spent to make someone's CLOTHES look realistic as opposed to putting some decent R&D into what actually makes a game GOOD.

    Nice.

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  5. like using coal instead of oil by clayasaurus · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "After that, they tried to do a few things with more lights, using perhaps eight instead of ten." Is that like president Bush spouting coal as a replacement for oil? http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=80& sid=200