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Article #707459Re: Xenon`Xbox2 gets AGEIA Technologies 'PhysX' - Physics Processing Unit ????
From: arc... Andrew Ryan Chang
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 00:56
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 00:56
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shootemup <shoo...@shooters.com> wrote: >http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=334407&page=1&pp=15 > > If a PPU is included in the Xbox 2, expect Half Life 2 physics to be the >physics equivalent of pong. Cost! Who thinks they're going to dump in another processor at this late date? >thousands of objects in any given level rather than tens? What about real >looking clothing, hair, or water?" Hair is as much about rendering as physics -- hair that flows realistically but doesn't self-shadow won't look real. (But that aside, I can't imagine that a PPU that can do "thousands" of objects is going to do enough real-time hair to look real. The characters of the FF movie had tens of thousands of hairs each on their heads. followups to agvx. (and apologies to the rest of you groups for our resident name-changing idiot Cygnus.) -- "We tried to design things for people of taste, but we found out there were not too many of them. So we went for the flamingos." -Don Featherstone, inventor of plastic pink flamingos.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone.bc.net!news.sfu.ca!not-for-mail From: arc...@sfu.ca (Andrew Ryan Chang) Newsgroups: alt.games.video.xbox,alt.xbox.discussion,comp.arch,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.tech,microsoft.public.xbox,microsoft.public.xbox.games,rec.games.video.sega,uk.games.video.xbox Subject: Re: Xenon`Xbox2 gets AGEIA Technologies 'PhysX' - Physics Processing Unit ???? Followup-To: alt.games.video.xbox Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 00:56:24 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Simon Fraser University Lines: 26 Message-ID: <d320fo$p7i$1@morgoth.sfu.ca> References: <hZKdnbvMAtOi88nfRVn-uQ@comcast.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: fraser.host.sfu.ca X-Trace: morgoth.sfu.ca 1112835384 25842 192.168.100.25 (7 Apr 2005 00:56:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: use...@morgoth.sfu.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 00:56:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test70 (17 January 1999) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit