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xtknight, Thank you very much for the link. It seems like the Silhouette Detection and the Bezier Curve is unrelated. From the looks of the slides, it seems like the speaker was jumping from topic to topic. But it would be cool if they decreased the poly count in the cow, did the silhouete...

Thanks for the link. I'll read through that tomorrow.

This is true, and that's how we get a normal map. It makes everything look amazing :), except at the edges :(.

I was thinking it might be possible to not draw polygons in 3-space, but rather spline the edges as a 2D post process with some information of the vertices. Namely the projected locations and the normals (only the x and y components would be needed). Since we already have the normal, it saves...

Please no arguing about which game has better graphics. I'm impressed by all the games listed. From the images I've seen of crysis, they have the same problem. Admittedly the faces look nice (if you view the ign images you will know what I am talking about), but that's mostly from the...

Example Image In recent years I've been blown away at the amount of realism and detail that is being introduced into real-time 3d. Take a look at the example image. The features on the face are remarkably detailed with beautiful lighting (not to mention a stone cold stare). But the...

Even if you do not ascribe yourself to be of the same faith as me doesn't mean you are damned to hell in my opinion. Also many scientists do in fact believe in God. And your statement about humanity filling the void by creating the concept of God confuses me. Is our creation of God like our...

well there is RFIDs, you mean something like that?

I believe that's "hypoteneese" ;)

are you in the that field or is this outside conjecture. I feel the same way. Though I think we'll have volumetric storage within the next 4 years, I don't think it will be as refined as this company thinks. But I only understand the technology on a very basic level.

the top line on the bottom figure is not straight. in fact if you drew a straight line from each of the end points you would get a trianle with the same area of the square divided by two. This is a little hard to see since the borders of each shape are comparatively thick. Notice that the...

Hi, After looking at the other topics, I'm not sure if this is a Highly Technical question. Last week I attended a brief on holographic storage and optical network solutions (which also tied in WiMAX for the MANs). The storage device is highly resiliant to extreme temps and can be dropped...

Hi, I have a 9800 pro and it suits me more than fine. I use it for everyday stuff like watching movies, surfing the net and gaming. I play both old and new games. We're talking commander keen to unreal tournament to far cry. They all play great. Far cry looks and feels awesome. My...

Yeah I would like to see if there is a way to run the x800 demos on my 9800pro.

<LI>I want a video card that will also take care of the physics in a game world with each jointed part having a defined center of gravity and weight. <LI>real-time radiosity <LI>instead of just blurring the edges of a shadow, I would like proper diffraction models <LI>I would like light...