A whole load of random questions

[digitalwanderer]

Or more correctly Bui-Tuong lighting...

Phong Bui-Tuong is his full name, with Bui-Tuong being his family name and Phong being is given name (first name), but on his seminal PHD he wrote his name in the Vietnamese style of family name first, given name second so seeing Bui-Tuong Phong, all the western readers quickly named these revolutionary ideas Phong shading and Phong lighting.

Which I'm assured is for Vietnamese readers, its the equivilent of something like "John's shading".

OMG is that funny!

 

[Pete]

If you want an eye opener, try a searcg for IBMs "Big Bertha" LCD display. IIRC it has 4 inputs.

That beauty's owned a special place in my techno-lusting heart ever since I read about it a couple years ago. AA's death knell and a reason for SLI wrapped up in one sweet little package. It's my density ... I mean, destiny. Heck, that LCD is so dense, it probably exhibits a tangible gravitational pull--beyond the hold it has on tech fans, that is.

 

[Simon F]

If you want an eye opener, try a searcg for IBMs "Big Bertha" LCD display. IIRC it has 4 inputs.

That beauty's owned a special place in my techno-lusting heart ever since I read about it a couple years ago. AA's death knell ...

I hate to burst your bubble but scene data can still contain detail that has to be antialiased or you will get artefacts even at that resolution. Of course, the chances of it occuring do diminish but they are still there.

BTW it seems that one of the articles I just read said it had 2 DVI inputs - I could have sworn in a talk I attended they said they were using 4 <shrug>

 

[Ailuros]

I hate to burst your bubble but scene data can still contain detail that has to be antialiased or you will get artefacts even at that resolution.

I'm not aware what kind of resolution the IBM monitor has, yet the Apple 30" has from what I can remember an optimum resolution of 2536*1600.

Apart from the above, if one uses that resolution w/o AA in recent demanding games, performance is a major consideration.

I'm not sure how SLi configs usually perform in those resolutions; maybe those could make a difference in non-CPU-bound scenarios (which aren't all that much anyway). S.o. that can spend 3k on a monitor wouldn't shy away from a SLi config either I figure.

 

[nutball]

I hate to burst your bubble but scene data can still contain detail that has to be antialiased or you will get artefacts even at that resolution.

I'm not aware what kind of resolution the IBM monitor has, yet the Apple 30" has from what I can remember an optimum resolution of 2536*1600.

Bertha is 3840x2400. Apparently it has something like 96MB of built-in frame-buffer.

Just to put that in perspective, I could take a photo with my 6MP digital camera, display it pixel-for-pixel, and still have plenty of room left on-screen

 

[Ostsol]

Hmm. . . Just curious, but what is the bandwidth on the DVI connection to the monitor?

 

[Pete]

Simon, I know how you enjoy bursting bubbles. You're a habitual bubble burster. Surely AA will be needed, but I'd imagine that need would be somewhat lessened at basically quadruple HDTV res. But, just to be clear, you're not primarily bubble-bursting edge AA, are you?

I also remember four inputs. Maybe it's two dual-link inputs?

Ostsol, apparently one TDMS link supplies 165MHz. I guess a dual-link basically doubles that to 330MHz. So, double dual-links allows for about 660MHz, which grants us around 70Hz at Bertha's native res. There's probably overhead to account for, tho, so 60Hz sounds like a reasonable max.

Here's a link to Big Bertha, for you non-Googlers. Apparently it has two dual-link connectors, and includes two Y-wires with two single-link DVI connectors per wire. It runs at 48Hz. No pixel response time given, as far as I can see.

BTW, apparently nVidia is TWIMTBP'ed.

I'm sure Dave knows they've run Q3A at native res on this beauty. I'm thinking another exclusive review?