You're actually talking past each other. You're not getting what he is saying.
I think the same about us actually. This is irrelevant to the thread, our modeller is as excited about making more impressive presentations for the device as the rest of the team. But just for the sake of discussion,
Let me put it to you this way - get an A4 sheet of paper and a pencil. On one side, I want you to draw a bus, but you're allowed to use a maximum of 10 pencil strokes.
On the other side, you need to use at least 3000 pencil strokes and at most 4000 pencil strokes.
I can explain with this analogy. You're not getting what I mean, or I'm not explaining it properly, in which case I apologize.
This analogy is pretty similar to our laser projection project where there were limited number of lines the laser mirrors could draw, about 1000.
Had we bought cheaper mirror motors, our artist would be limited to 300 points. If I said my 3d artist to make a bus with just 300, x length lines, it would be harder for him to make something good looking with such limited resources than if I gave him 1000 lines limit (less hardware limitation).
Sure, he could draw a shitty bus with most details missing with 300 lines, but nobody in the team would be happy with the results, including our modeller. It just wouldn't be worth the time and effort we had spent on everything else in that project.
But if he did mange to make a decent bus with just 300 lines, would he be doing less work? Well, again, the answer is not always yes. As one artist pointed out in this thread, sometimes they spend more time optimizing the 3d model (which means, among other things, decreasing the polygon count while trying to keep as much detail and quality as possible) which takes a lot of effort and time by itself. Often a higher resolution model is prepared, textures are created from it, then the textures are assigned to a separately prepared lower res model to make it look better. With less hardware constraints, the lower res model wouldn't need to be prepared, the original one could have been used, or at least much less optimization would be required. Or like in the analogy, the bus with less lines could actually take longer to draw because the artist would be thinking what details to include and omit and still make it look good. I thought 3DVagabond's example was enough, but there you go.
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