Real life examples of 'broken graphics'

[Shifty Geezer]

We all know every game with good visuals also experiences worst case images showing faults of the engine. But not all faults are actually faults. I just came across this and thought it worth opening a place to record examples of 'broken graphics' from real life to refer to when it looks like a game engine is getting it wrong as possibly the engine is getting it right.

Here the Universe completely failed to light the church, slapping it down just with albedo where it looks cut+pasted onto a photo.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

This is the Le Mans pit stop exit with last-last gen lighting, showcasing the Universe really needs a visual upgrade. Pretty much zero ambient occlusion in effect. At least anisotropic filtering is dialled up.

 

[Krteq]

So, both examples are "RTX OFF", is that right?

 

[orangpelupa]

There's a lot of these kind of images on glitvhinthematrix subreddit. Although nowadays that subreddit is filled more and more with people not understanding physics...

Nice to have a place that's more focused

 

[milk]

There are some interesting ones here:

https://www.boredpanda.com/photos-l...ckgo&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=organic

Like this:

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Here's a good one from that collection exhibiting nature's flat lighting:

And here's one showing the photographer clipped through the floor like a PS1 game:

 

[Shifty Geezer]

This water shader hasn't perturbed the UVs enough and we see a pretty unconvincing regular grid for the waves.

 

[21st Century Moose]

Missing model and missing texture - two bugs for the price of one.

 

[Rys]

Topped off by use of Comic Sans. Woof.

 

[Dampf]

Here's a good one from that collection exhibiting nature's flat lighting:

I can't believe this photo is real lol

 

[Flappy Pannus]

I can't believe this photo is real lol

The lighting is definitely flat, but what's helping this look so odd is that it looks like it's gone through some AI upscaling. The blurriness and artifacts of the concrete/cars are really helping this effect.

 

[SlmDnk]

Textures disabled.

 

[tunafish]

Not graphics, but audio.

If you listen to a powerful solid-fueled rocket taking off, you hear very clear audio clipping.

Example:

Hearing it in a recording, it's easy to think that it's a recording or playback problem. It isn't, it's just as well audible if you are listening to the launch on site. What's clipping is the atmosphere itself. While there is no upper limit to how much pressure there can be, there is a lower limit of zero, or vacuum. This limits the loudest possible unclipped normal sound to 194dB, where the highest pressures are 2atm and the lowest pressures are vacuum. Any louder than that, and all sound in air will clip.

 

[orangpelupa]

Not graphics, but audio.

If you listen to a powerful solid-fueled rocket taking off, you hear very clear audio clipping.

Example:

Hearing it in a recording, it's easy to think that it's a recording or playback problem. It isn't, it's just as well audible if you are listening to the launch on site. What's clipping is the atmosphere itself. While there is no upper limit to how much pressure there can be, there is a lower limit of zero, or vacuum. This limits the loudest possible unclipped normal sound to 194dB, where the highest pressures are 2atm and the lowest pressures are vacuum. Any louder than that, and all sound in air will clip.

So that what happened to my PS4 pro fan sound

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Honestly voxels can't hold a candle to polygons. Always looks so rough and blobby!

 

[milk]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1585155000950407169

 

[SlmDnk]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1585155000950407169

From the replies:

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Have they baked shadow info on vertices?!

 

[cheapchips]

Lazy duplicate animation.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1587968965661593600

 

[cheapchips]

Good job they were wearing clean underpants

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1618298775121891330