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Real-Time, Movie-Quality CGI For Games

Posted by kdawson on from the we-can-animate-it-for-you-wholesale dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An Intel-owned development team can now render CGI-quality graphics in real time. 'Their video clips show artists pulling together 3D elements like a jigsaw puzzle (see for example this video starting at about 3:38), making movie-level CG look as easy as following a recipe.' They hope that the simplicity of 'Project Offset' could ultimately give them the edge in the race to produce real-time graphics engines for games."

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  1. Re:As long as Moore's law holds by binarylarry · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unfortunately, the faster the processors get, fancier rendering features become possible in the offline space as well.

    Realtime rendering will never be on par with offline rendering of the same vintage.

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  2. Re:Who will write the software for the bird? by PotatoFarmer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    At what point will the hardware capabilities exceed the software we can write?

    Never. More hardware means programmers can get away with writing less efficient code.