Aren't they kinda the same? Just a bunch of points? Polygons are also based on points. I think this technology might be trying to jump ahead a bit too far without the hardware to really support it being beneficial to polygons at the moment. Give polygon video game art enough time and it'll esentialy be the same thing.…
Isn't a polygon at its simplest form a triangle which is composed of only 3 verts which can be any length apart from each other, even near overlapping? And isn't a point an infinitely small thing as to have no dimension itself whatsoever? So to be drawn a point must in fact become at least the simplest form of a polygon…
Again, you have to think in terms of potential applications. What about using it for 3D GUIs and interfaces? If it performs as well as they claim, you could create some incredibly deatiled UIs using a system like that. As to the resolution, what about using it on consoles? Those usually only have a fixed number of…
It makes sense, but to use it you need to be able to access all the millions and billions of pieces of data (digital atoms) at any given moment. Just like Google has indexed search information you would have to index these digital atoms. I can see his point about doing away with the polygons though. To get a pixel off a…
All of the examples use a lot of repeating objects. I wonder if the system relies on a lot of instancing to run at those speeds, so that the search algorithm he was talking about can compartmentalize its searches to the point cloud data of one object and its position in space relative to the viewer rather than searching…
I sent them an email asking a few technical questions, and just got this today: "Thank you for your interest in Unlimited Detail, We are at present building the commercial SDK and Demonstrations. The planned form of the SDK is as follows: IMPORT OF DATA: Data can be imported from a variety of sources. We expect to directly…
Last few posts are a tad pedantic for me...seriously, just deal with it. Also sorry for the wall of text, it kinda bummed me out after I realised I wrote so much. I agree with the folks in the "cool tech, though not yet" wagon. I know people question "is this needed?" But, a good deal of the tech world has not really been…