I got some dirt on the actual techniques they used to find the galaxy.
Bob: Ok, hand me that picture. Dave: But how do you know.. Bob: Look, just hand me the freaking picture. Dave: Okay, okay! Bob: Now, all we need to do is draw a little oval with a dashed line, like so.. voila! Instant invisible galaxy. Dave: Is that an invisible Paris Hilton? Bob: I'll be damned, that girl's got more pictures floating around than the royal family.
Learn to read what? The points that you omitted from your first post?
I'm not sure whose side of the coin you're arguing.
1995 - Toy Story & Hexen 2001 - Final Fantasy & Max Payne
I'd say that the prerendered quality is advancing faster than the videogame quality.
But you're missing the point. Video cards and rendering farms use different methods for creating images. The same 3D model will always look better ray traced than it will on a 3D video card. (Forgive me for not knowing the proper term for the method a video card uses to calculate the display). So the real question shouldn't be "When can we pull off enough tricks to make the image look equal in quality to the prerendered (raytraced) version," but "When will the processing power be great enough to raytrace on the fly."
It seems to me that as video cards keep adding tricks to make the image more realistic, eventually they're going to be using MORE processing power than it would take to just render it with raytracing. Sure, they can keep approaching the same levels of quality, but they'll never match it until they switch rendering methods.
Well, you'd be paying as much for the DVD set as you would for 1 month of cable, so that argument doesn't really hold up.. However, it's not hard to find the episodes online.
I pay for cable, so I don't see how it could possibly be illegal for me to download them. I merely timeshifted the shows. From the future, as it turns out, since most of them haven't yet been shown in the states.
If you'd bothered to read the grandparent, you'd have seen that I was replying to the statement:
There is a next generation of engines that make the gap smaller and smaller between real-time graphics and rendered animated films. Take a look at this Unreal Engine 3 page [unrealtechnology.com] for example.
I agree, I've seen a lot more innovation in gameplay for consoles.. I just don't like 'em. Specifically, I don't like gamepads, low resolution graphics, and the load times (on the PS2 at least).
Eh.. this guy still looks unnatural to me. The chains around him STILL look like the flat textures they are, as do his teeth, and the joints on the gun. I'm sure the chains will stretch unnaturally as the creature moves, and the barrel of the gun is still a hexagon.
There's still a long way to go and, in fact, I don't think we'll ever reach the point where a single processor will be capable of creating an image on the fly that matches the quality of a prerendered.
I don't really believe that's possible without taking a model of the listener's ear. Shoulders, okay, but most people's ears are different enough that I can't imagine a one-size-fits-all solution.
EQ2, HL2, and there are others I'm sure.. 512MB cards were supposed to reach the market a while ago, and developers HAVE been creating games with that in mind.
Not that I play many games anymore. As far as I can tell, there are only 4 games on the market:
1) Ye Olde FPS 2) Ye Olde RTS 3) Ye Olde Sim 4) Ye Olde MMOG
And I've played them all. Many different times, under many different names. It's gotten to the point where it's so mundane, I feel like the pecking bird that does Homer's button-pushing job at the nuclear plant. (Sorry, nuke-u-lar).
I'm beginning to wonder if Slashcode parses and automatically mods up and comments containing "before you 'flame me|mod me down'".
I think you've answered that question.
Before you mod me down, have a Snickers. Snickers really satisfies. Who names a candy bar after laughter anyway? That does NOT make sense. Why am I talking about a candybar and laughter when there's satellite data being withheld? Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense!
Who are you and what have you done with Slashdot?
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No need to guess: according to the MuniWireless link, "the network is for public safety personnel (police, fire, ambulance and border patrol) first, with various community agencies, schools, business and local residents being added as the deployment expands beyond its targeted coverage areas."
Okay, what sort of alternate universe is this? This is the second story today where the submitter hasn't RTFA, but now this? Now the EDITOR actually read the story.
Is anyone else feeling just a little freaked out right about now?
I got my French classmates to not joke about Americans, I hope I can get my American classmates to not joke about French people.
Why would we joke about a country full of pastry eating surrender monkies who make up their own words because they don't want their language polluted by scummy English words.. most of which, in modern times, are derived from Latin anyway. Oh, the irony.
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I got some dirt on the actual techniques they used to find the galaxy.
Bob: Ok, hand me that picture.
Dave: But how do you know..
Bob: Look, just hand me the freaking picture.
Dave: Okay, okay!
Bob: Now, all we need to do is draw a little oval with a dashed line, like so.. voila! Instant invisible galaxy.
Dave: Is that an invisible Paris Hilton?
Bob: I'll be damned, that girl's got more pictures floating around than the royal family.
Learn to read what? The points that you omitted from your first post?
I'm not sure whose side of the coin you're arguing.
1995 - Toy Story & Hexen
2001 - Final Fantasy & Max Payne
I'd say that the prerendered quality is advancing faster than the videogame quality.
But you're missing the point. Video cards and rendering farms use different methods for creating images. The same 3D model will always look better ray traced than it will on a 3D video card. (Forgive me for not knowing the proper term for the method a video card uses to calculate the display). So the real question shouldn't be "When can we pull off enough tricks to make the image look equal in quality to the prerendered (raytraced) version," but "When will the processing power be great enough to raytrace on the fly."
It seems to me that as video cards keep adding tricks to make the image more realistic, eventually they're going to be using MORE processing power than it would take to just render it with raytracing. Sure, they can keep approaching the same levels of quality, but they'll never match it until they switch rendering methods.
All good sci-fi universes include some form of space cowboys, they just have to : )
And all this time I thought the lyrics from The Joker were a reference to sex & drugs...
Why does everybody compare every new show to Friends??
Well, you'd be paying as much for the DVD set as you would for 1 month of cable, so that argument doesn't really hold up.. However, it's not hard to find the episodes online.
I pay for cable, so I don't see how it could possibly be illegal for me to download them. I merely timeshifted the shows. From the future, as it turns out, since most of them haven't yet been shown in the states.
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity. It's more likely that the author was painfully misinformed.
You always have to add in a cliche.. for example:
"I'll probably get modded down for saying this, but moderation is completely arbitrary."
And then you get a +1 insightful.
Duh? Nice vernacular.
If you'd bothered to read the grandparent, you'd have seen that I was replying to the statement:
There is a next generation of engines that make the gap smaller and smaller between real-time graphics and rendered animated films. Take a look at this Unreal Engine 3 page [unrealtechnology.com] for example.
Nobody said anything about photorealism.
Ah, I got your comment completely backwards..
I agree, I've seen a lot more innovation in gameplay for consoles.. I just don't like 'em. Specifically, I don't like gamepads, low resolution graphics, and the load times (on the PS2 at least).
Hasn't anyone ever read Andromeda?? Don't thaw them out!!
Consoles? I owned a PS2 once. It served it's purpose, but I have a dedicated DVD player now.
Eh.. this guy still looks unnatural to me. The chains around him STILL look like the flat textures they are, as do his teeth, and the joints on the gun. I'm sure the chains will stretch unnaturally as the creature moves, and the barrel of the gun is still a hexagon.
There's still a long way to go and, in fact, I don't think we'll ever reach the point where a single processor will be capable of creating an image on the fly that matches the quality of a prerendered.
I don't really believe that's possible without taking a model of the listener's ear. Shoulders, okay, but most people's ears are different enough that I can't imagine a one-size-fits-all solution.
You forgot to put "I'll probably get modded down for double posting, but..." at the beginning.
Works every time.
EQ2, HL2, and there are others I'm sure.. 512MB cards were supposed to reach the market a while ago, and developers HAVE been creating games with that in mind.
Not that I play many games anymore. As far as I can tell, there are only 4 games on the market:
1) Ye Olde FPS
2) Ye Olde RTS
3) Ye Olde Sim
4) Ye Olde MMOG
And I've played them all. Many different times, under many different names. It's gotten to the point where it's so mundane, I feel like the pecking bird that does Homer's button-pushing job at the nuclear plant. (Sorry, nuke-u-lar).
I'm beginning to wonder if Slashcode parses and automatically mods up and comments containing "before you 'flame me|mod me down'".
I think you've answered that question.
Before you mod me down, have a Snickers. Snickers really satisfies. Who names a candy bar after laughter anyway? That does NOT make sense. Why am I talking about a candybar and laughter when there's satellite data being withheld? Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense!
If a 175-pound man fell into one end , he would come out the other end as...
a delicious and nutritious food product.
No need to guess: according to the MuniWireless link, "the network is for public safety personnel (police, fire, ambulance and border patrol) first, with various community agencies, schools, business and local residents being added as the deployment expands beyond its targeted coverage areas."
Okay, what sort of alternate universe is this? This is the second story today where the submitter hasn't RTFA, but now this? Now the EDITOR actually read the story.
Is anyone else feeling just a little freaked out right about now?
That's true.
Or not.
It signs the contract on the bottom line!
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I got my French classmates to not joke about Americans, I hope I can get my American classmates to not joke about French people.
Why would we joke about a country full of pastry eating surrender monkies who make up their own words because they don't want their language polluted by scummy English words.. most of which, in modern times, are derived from Latin anyway. Oh, the irony.
By then, it may be too late, as in the meantime, the attacker may collect and even modify information that was not intended for him.
Damnit, Bones I, can't figure out how to, place commas in, my, sentences I know they, should go somewhere I'm. Just not sure where.