Unlimited Detail: To replace polygons in the near future?

[Maikel Steneker]

It definately sounds interesting. Still, we don't know if this really works that well. If it does, that's great! It would take some time for developers to get to understand this, but the results could be great!

 

[shakirmoledina]

great idea and very interesting but will take time for making and understanding it

if it is going to take too much power then i say there will be a rethink on how everything is handled and although graphics are really important, they should never come above smoothness and gameplay

EDIT: dont u just hate double posts

 

[Deleted-171178]

We ain't doin' no geometry!
We're here to play sum GAYMES!

 

[KingVamp]

We ain't doin' no geometry!
We're here to play sum GAYMES!

yea I do not buy a game just to see or found what shapes they use to make the games lol

 

[klein]

One problem I could see is that it will still take time to make things in the game, so if a developer wanted to make an unlimited game may spend months just working on a tree. If it takes longer to make a tree for example with this new system than developers will be reluctant to switch.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Seems plausible, using 2D instead of 3D, but we'll see.

 

[Jamstruth]

It will use more power than what we have already but its certainly plausible considering his "search algorithm" explanation. There's only really one problem with this and that's that there are a bajillion different ways it could look from a bajillion different angles, a search engine "indexes" or basically maps out what every page says so that when keywords are put in it can instantly bring up all the pages with those keywords. For point cloud data there is a LOT of data to index and this means a LOT of space required for it in memory either on hard drive or in RAM.

 

[Fakie!]

In this video he says they are looking to implement the technology on Wii and DS so it looks like you don't need a monster machine after all.



And even if it doesn't look THAT good I'd still take those graphics over anything that Wii has rendered (except maybe some games like Mario Galaxy

which look perfect the way they are).

 

[sjones900]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmhDP6yQ2mY
An amazing demonstration.

 

[imz]

It's a nice concept but until home computers are powerful enough to run this at a decent speed it will remain simply a concept

 

[Feels Good Man]

It's a nice concept but until home computers are powerful enough to run this at a decent speed it will remain simply a concept

I'm sure computers can run it at a decent speed

 

[Bladexdsl]

It's a nice concept but until home computers are powerful enough to run this at a decent speed it will remain simply a concept

I'm sure computers can run it at a decent speed

no computer today can look what it takes to make one of them cgi movies a shitload of computers and this tech is worse!

 

[o0ICE0o]

...They mentioned ruining this on DS, or Wii.
My computer, a crappy HP can run both at the same time.
I'm sure about 95% of people have a better comp than me.