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Re: Unlimited Detail
Well, here's what I DO know. The traditional polygon rendering pipeline currently in use was designed specifically for single-thread operation. This is why an entire industry sprang up around designing and selling independent 3D cards. The current rendering pipeline needed an additional processor to really push… -
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Well, the thrust of my argument was that the current method of rendering 3D graphics was partially entrenched by the direction that hardware manufacturers had taken with GPU design. You disproved some of the technical specifics, but you thoroughly verified that my main point was valid. In fact, you pointed out that GPU's… -
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At this point... it is a matter of opinion considering that nobody here knows the implementation. They can guess on what they think the implementation is like, but the fact is, is that a lot of people didn't think it was running in real-time in the first place. Nobody can answer me as to how the demo was running on that… -
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It's like everyone is trying to make connections that aren't there as to why this isn't legit.... PolyMonster: No, this isn't old tech. This runs in real time on a single core laptop CPU in software mode. Pure voxels could never hope to achieve that. -
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When 3D was first created, it was not created for making games. Unwrapping for textures, bones for animating, collisions, physics... we had to come up with all of that ourselves to make 3D viable for games. The same thing simply needs to be done here. We've shown that as humans, we can pretty much solve any problem. Also,… -
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Coming back to this; it's how euclidean operates, they spout out a bunch of factual nonsense and misinformation in the desperate hunt for investors or new areas, they also had that funny chart of processor speeds vs storage space without taking into consideration the fact that processors started to achieve more per clock… -
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Isn't raytracing one of the features often touted as the future of rendering technology? And isn't the specialized nature of 3D rendering dependent on the current approach to 3D rendering? Doesn't my argument still hold water despite my lack of technical knowledge, and didn't you just prove it for me? The extreme… -
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The fact that the demo is running on the Hard OCP laptop shows that those memory constraints are simply not true. I seriously doubt that laptop has more than 4 TB of HDD space. Notch was assumping that all points were stored for the entire volume of the object. He didn't consider compression or just storing surface points.… -
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Transparency could be solved the same way as foliage and dynamic geometry + characters, by using a hybrid renderer. Especially if it's using deferred rendering, because then all lighting and shading could be done in a single pass using the same code and generating consistent results (because it only works with G-buffer… -
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Over the course of fifteen years. And based on an iterative cycle. (always building off of the the work that had already been done) And lets face it, as forward-thinking as John Carmack may be, he didn't attempt anything this fundamentally different. I don't view it as a trade-off, so much as a new beginning. Of course…
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