Re: Quake IV

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From: Graeme Hawker
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 03:13

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Artifakt wrote:

>There evidently aren't any games companies 
>working on 4-D physical spaces, objects that are neither faceted or 
>curved, and such. (Pity, I would love to see R'yleh rendered 
>realistically). 
>
The maths behind rendition of non-polygonal surfaces has been around for 
a while, but involves such a terribly high level of computation that 
we're not going to see computers/graphics cards capable of real-time 
processing of it for quite some years. Games companies have to use the 
technology of the marketplace, so they're stuck firmly in polygonal 
rendering for the foreseeable future.

I would say, though, that the equations involved in dynamic lighting are 
easily complicated enough to merit it being called a new generation of 
3D engine, but it's all semantic really. It really depends on the level 
of competing products.

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From: Graeme Hawker <spam@meep2.thingyoucatchfishin.invalid>
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