I hope we will find some of this in DX9 or DX10 :
http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/units/ag4/areas/Hardware/
[edit : the displacement-mapping seems to be quite fast. A furry donut rendered with 35Hz @ an PIII 800 with an GF2GTS is nice IMHO ]
More can be found here :
http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/units/ag4/areas.html
http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/units/ag4/areas/Hardware/
[edit : the displacement-mapping seems to be quite fast. A furry donut rendered with 35Hz @ an PIII 800 with an GF2GTS is nice IMHO ]
More can be found here :
http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/units/ag4/areas.html