Hmmm... What you should be expecting is what the artists are capable of delivering.
Curved surfaces will definitely come in to play. This should make the artists life a little easier as long as good editors are available.
Shadows will finally be everywhere (this requires quite a lot of...
Never quite understood patents!
If you write your ideas down in the form of a patent it becomes public knowledge. Now, this means all the other engineers in the world find out about it. U C... no engineer worth his salt is just going to simply copy someone elses idea! You've got to beat it...
Oh... really... thank u! ;-> actually I been here ages but used to have a different and censorable name b4! I been about a while - even worked for a graphics chip firm.....
I just think we could get into battle similar to AMD vs. Intel... which is essentially the age old optimisation problems...
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ATI produced this monster on .15 micron - fair enough - however software that uses all of these features won't be around for quite a while yet.
My suspicion is that ATI are going to go for a clock speed ramping - they may not get a new architecture out for a year or so...