Holy shit ! Rendering with atoms !

I'm looking forward to it, herd about it before, and it is impressive

They should hire some artists because the sheer ugliness of their models isn't doing their tech demo any favors. And where are the shaders / lighting models? Everything looks fullbright. Anyway, I'm skeptical, but maybe in a few years it'll be usable for something.

wow, looks like they came through!

i wonder how this stuff works on consoles?

and i wonder why nobody else is looking into it?

i still don't really buy it just yet, there's no evidence of motion, so i wonder how they plan on dealing with that.

So how does physics work on a million pebbles and why do I give a fuck.

Well...progress I guess. :science:

meanwhile...

Quote from Rick_D

i still don't really buy it just yet, there's no evidence of motion, so i wonder how they plan on dealing with that.

Yep.

I dont buy it either, but I want to

And yeah, they really ought to get some super talented artists working on this stuff, plus upload their videos in HD

http://unlimiteddetailtechnology.com/home.html

Some other clips on GT.com if you can put up with how he says "data".

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/techn ... ail/718415

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/quick ... ail/718416

I just had a cool idea. This tech could be useful for something like google earth in the future. Full scanned 3d world. They could even scan the world from one of their google space stations.

It looks cool, they just need to get the lighting worked out! Lighting is very bland right now.

Hate their videos; just can't stand his voice nor his inflated ego. There's probably good reason why this isn't already used.

They could prove me wrong. But I doubt it...

Quote from twiz

It looks cool, they just need to get the lighting worked out! Lighting is very bland right now.

Did you watch the video?

I'm curious as to how things like player collision will be handled and how much of a tax on the cpu / gpu that would be... for all those little atoms... or maybe you build a low poly collision model for your map?

perhaps they already answered this though....

So what about the workflow then? Ditch everything we know? Make new engines from scratch again?

Gonna stand at the sideline and see what happens, looks interesting though. But can we really just convert everything from poly to atom and be done with it?

Does look interesting, but I have my guard up until it's proven - that guy sounds too much of a muppet for it to be real

These guys are trolling hardcore style

interesting comment on youtube, that these points have to be assigned locations, so each point's position along with colour information, will take up hundreds of gigabytes. unless they have a way around this then that is probably one of the biggest problems.

Let me know when an animator tries working with this...

they're basically using a search algorithm and some pretty basic logic. the max amount of pixels on screen is the screen resolution, so they're using a binary search algorithm to filter which piece should be displayed on every pixel. a binary search algorithm is one of the fastest search algorithms out there, using lg2(n) time to find an element in a sorted structure. which basically means that it can all be boiled down to a screen latency of ~22 units of time (e.g. ms) at a pretty extreme resolution (3000x1500, just as an example).

or so i understood from their previous video. skjalg will probably poke holes in this.