At the weekend, I downloaded and tried out every demo nVidia have ever 
made. (Well, except for the first one, which wouldn't download. And the 
last few, which require a GeForce 8 series.)

The first one was literally a crystal ball. In other words, they were 
showing off using environment mapping to simulate reflection. Hmm. Oh 
well, it does say "Requires GeForce 2 or better"...

Anyway, actually most of the demos were pretty unimpressive. I mean, I'm 
sure they're technically quite advanced. But not much fun to look at.

It wasn't until I reached "Dawn" that I was impressed. That's one pretty 
impressive fairy. (Um... and the reason she's wearing almost nothing 
is...? Hmm, I wonder who their target demographic is? *wink*) Her sister 
"Dusk" is impressive too.

And then we have "Nalu", the mermaid. Fairly technically-impressive, if 
a little uninteresting. (She doesn't really "do" much.) Being 
underwater, the skin tones don't seem quite so "wow!", if you see what I 
mean.

Well anyway, the thing that really blew me away was "Luna and the 
Occular Oracle". I mean... woah. 0_0 Watch it and you'll see what I 
mean. Graphically it's fairly impressive stuff. But scenematically... 
Seriously, WHAT THE HELL where these guys smoking when they came up with 
this stuff?? It's like a far-out acid trip or something... wow. Just 
wow. Oh, yeah, and the graphics are fairly impressive. But that's not 
what I was most looking at... heh.

Oh, and now half the demos won't uninstall cleanly. But then, a few of 
them wouldn't run properly in the first place. In general, all the demos 
seemed pretty buggy. Hmm... great advert!

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