POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : The computer project : Re: The computer project Server Time
4 Sep 2024 21:20:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The computer project  
From: Darren New
Date: 12 Jun 2010 12:38:11
Message: <4c13b7f3$1@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> Yet you guys underestimate how much work goes into trying to develop things like
> Global Illumination or Participating Media in real time for games. 

I don't!  I had no idea how such things were done until I started studying 
it, and now I have a good appreciation of the limits of what the chip can 
actually do. :-)

> Designing a GPU for PS4 may sound glamurous, but I guess if you were the
> japanese guy working 30 hours a day under lots of pressure you'd actually think
> of suicide... :P

Oh, I don't know that designing the hardware sounds fun. That sounds tedious 
as hell, to me.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Eiffel - The language that lets you specify exactly
    that the code does what you think it does, even if
    it doesn't do what you wanted.


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