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A Peek At the Origin of PS3's New Visualizer

Posted by Zonk on from the planet-earth-pretty-much-the-best-documentary-evar dept.

Folks at the Gamasutra network had a quick sitdown with the Q-Games team, the people behind the PlayStation 3's new Gaia music visualizer. They discuss the origins of the project, as well as some possible plans for the future. "McLaren explains: 'This representation of the earth is a 3D model with some shaders and SPU trickery going on. We tried to accurately model the earth's atmosphere and have all the correct highlights on the oceans, etc. The texture data is sourced from the NASA Blue Marble project.'"

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  1. Similar PC Project by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you have a few spare gigs and a crapload of bandwidth you can get a similar open source project which wasn't as impressive looking last time I ran it but which will let you use the full blue marble dataset:

    http://www.andesengineering.com/BlueMarbleViewer/

  2. Re:Good visualizers for Windows or Linux? by Pojut · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Milkdrop plugin for WinAmp is positively insane...especially if you have a fast video card with a nice widescreen LCD monitor...crank up the resolution, FSAA, and texture size in the options and it looks unbelievable

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    Living With a Nerd