The Antikythera Mechanism with Java goodness!

Mefix

Just click on the photos

Right click for additional options. This is the method of how they did it.

Download the full resolution thing here.

gauss

they're doing some crazy shit with photoprocessing and manipulation these days, eh? great choice of subject photographs, since there's so much relief detail there... would be curious to see the same tech applied to a wider variety of subjects. likely wouldn't look so hot on some things as others, but very interesting nonetheless.

oh, and you might want to edit your subject to suggest something about the image lighting thingy, "java goodness" really doesn't reference what the link is about.

HonkyPunch

Wait
So real time in java...
means this could easily be translated into video games, AM I RITE?

Asmuel

That is pretty cool

EarthQuake

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So real time in java...
means this could easily be translated into video games, AM I RITE?

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Why yes of course, its called using a normal map!

HonkyPunch

Oops.

Eric Chadwick

Not quite. PTMs show soft-shadowing that's depth-accurate, captured from real lighting. Can't get that with a normalmap, even when you use the bump-shadowing hack. Might be a way to do something similar though, hmmmm.

Cool link.

Illusions

Cool, but it results in some strange wiggling going on in image AK01a-512 with the text.

EarthQuake

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Not quite. PTMs show soft-shadowing that's depth-accurate, captured from real lighting. Can't get that with a normalmap, even when you use the bump-shadowing hack. Might be a way to do something similar though, hmmmm.

Cool link.

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Aha wow, i didnt even notice when i was first looking but yeah, you seem to be right. Thats way more impressive. Isnt there a way to do something similar with shadowed relief maps?


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Cool, but it results in some strange wiggling going on in image AK01a-512 with the text.

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I think thats just an optical illusion, afiak thats actually "correct" our engine will give a similar effect if you just spin the lighting around on normal maps. Its just wierdness that you get from drastic lighting changes i think.

Eric Chadwick

Hmm, yeah, might be possible. Probably not feasible in a real game, but cool to think about.

Dynamic Parallax Occlusion Mapping with Approximate Soft Shadows (3MB PDF)
Natalya Tatarchuk
ATI Research, Inc.

EarthQuake

Yeah really at that point you're better off modeling some basic geometry to get the real silouhet+normals than using any of these expensive shaders.

acc

Well in that PDF it describes the technique in the OP which is impractical for games, then switches to plain parallax occlusion which is already feasible and only marginally worse in most cases.

So... yeah, nice per pixel self soft shadowing coming soon enough.