Peter Hofstee slides from that Cell preview (caps)
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Ray casting vs. texture mapping?
And people wonder why Sony needed to go to nVidia for a GPU.
And people wonder why Sony needed to go to nVidia for a GPU.
Megadrive1988
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can someone explain ray casting, and what the diff. is between it and ray tracing ?
oh nm i could just consult google 8)
oh nm i could just consult google 8)
I think those cell-driven virtual shopping malls are going to be a huge success...
One downside I can see immediately tho; one has to get dressed even before going out on the internet, or else get arrested for indecent exposure.
One downside I can see immediately tho; one has to get dressed even before going out on the internet, or else get arrested for indecent exposure.
Megadrive1988
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The two are not mutually exclusive. At least, not in the way I understand them.Tuttle said:Inane_Dork said:Ray casting vs. texture mapping?
And people wonder why Sony needed to go to nVidia for a GPU.
What does that even mean?McFly said:Hardware accelerated software rendering!
It's like Existential Hardware Design 101 or something.
Megadrive1988 said:
I wasn't serious, you know!
Frankly I'm stunned that was even mentioned on the slide. It's like someone was reaching too hard for ideas, they had some kind of brainstorming session trying to find new uses for their tech, and due to lack of imagination or whatever, that's what they came up with.
Sounds like some monstrosity born out of the dot-com boom era, I have no idea why anyone would want a VIRTUAL shopping mall... Just list the wares on a webpage, thank you. That'll be fine.
Guden Oden said:Megadrive1988 said:
I wasn't serious, you know!
Frankly I'm stunned that was even mentioned on the slide. It's like someone was reaching too hard for ideas, they had some kind of brainstorming session trying to find new uses for their tech, and due to lack of imagination or whatever, that's what they came up with.
Sounds like some monstrosity born out of the dot-com boom era, I have no idea why anyone would want a VIRTUAL shopping mall... Just list the wares on a webpage, thank you. That'll be fine.
Now virtual windowshopping can be fun wandering the space just like you do in MMORPGs. Virtual malls can be fed with advertisement money paid by tenants like broadcast TV so it's free to roam in. Oh wait, it'll need police not to make it too resemble GTA
Inane_Dork said:What does that even mean?McFly said:Hardware accelerated software rendering!
It's like Existential Hardware Design 101 or something.
I was refering to those GFX cards that are specialy made for accelerating a software renderer (do those cards even exist anymore?). For me this 'integrated acceleration' sounds a lot like those GFX cards.
Frei
Inane_Dork said:The two are not mutually exclusive. At least, not in the way I understand them.Tuttle said:Inane_Dork said:Ray casting vs. texture mapping?
And people wonder why Sony needed to go to nVidia for a GPU.
The slide says nothing about the two being mutually exclusive.
Which part of "versus" do you not understand? :?Tuttle said:
Spidermate
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Inane_Dork said:Ray casting vs. texture mapping?
And people wonder why Sony needed to go to nVidia for a GPU.
Yes, Sony is turning to Nvidia for a GPU, but that still doesn't mean anything. Sony could either have one of their own as well or they could have quite a bit to do with this GPU that Nvidia seems to be working on in which Nvidia didn't seem to mention. There are various clues that piont to this. Writing them off this early may just surprise you in the end.
