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On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 18:10:39 GMT, newsadmin@[remove]povray.org
(POV-Ray Newsadmin) wrote:
>Any quake players out there ?
<snip>
>-- Chris
I personally find it odd that the admin of the official news server
dedicated to a free raytracing program is posting a message about
using said server to play a commercial scan-line rendered
polygon-based game. Just a thought...
Peter Popov
ICQ: 15002700
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On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 23:21:37 GMT, pet### [at] usa net (Peter Popov) wrote:
>I personally find it odd that the admin of the official news server
>dedicated to a free raytracing program is posting a message about
>using said server to play a commercial scan-line rendered
>polygon-based game. Just a thought...
Hi, Peter. Perhaps Chris just thinks that it would be a fun and pleasant
diversion. It shouldn't detract in any way from anything else that goes on
here.
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Alan
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Exactly... they're faster (once they have been programmed with a set). For
example, they don't have a peak performance rate once they've been
programmed... because their peak is the sustained rate.
And also their ability to parallel process is a major step... Von Neumann
would be impressed. :)
--
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Ken wrote in message <37751A48.D47E7897@pacbell.net>...
>
>
>Lance Birch wrote:
>>
>> Hmm... just read the article and went to Star Bridges Systems' website...
>> I'm pretty speechless...
>>
>> A Field Programmable Gate Array running at 100 Trillion Floating Point
>> Operations Per Second...
>>
>> I litterally got a shiver down my spine reading that...
>>
>> Lance.
>
> While FPGA's are extremely fast it is important to remember that they are
>not CPU's and do not operate quite the same way.
>
>--
>Ken Tyler
>
>mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net
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On Sun, 27 Jun 1999 02:30:16 GMT, Alan Kong <ako### [at] pacbellNO-SPAMnet>
wrote:
> Hi, Peter. Perhaps Chris just thinks that it would be a fun and pleasant
>diversion. It shouldn't detract in any way from anything else that goes on
>here.
You know you've been raytracing too long if you refuse to play any
game that uses non-raytraced graphics :)
Hey, I'm not accusing our lovely admin of anything! Just been thinkin'
aloud... As long as we can share ideas over here I won't complain
about what this server is being used for -- it's not my server after
all. Please excuse me for any offense due to my previous post, I
assure you it was purely implicit (I hope my English does not betray
me right now :) )
Have fun.
Peter Popov
ICQ: 15002700
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I still occasionally play Doom II, and to me it's more fun than Quake. At least
in single player mode.
Margus
Alan Kong wrote:
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> On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 06:20:18 -0700, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
>
> >What is Quake ?
>
> What DOOM was to the early '90s... the ultimate shoot-'em-up in a 3d
> environment. Just you (and possibly some pals) against the hordes from Hell.
> Or, you can play 'deathmatch' against a fellow gamer, Ken. Do you feel
> lucky, pal?
>
> --
> Alan
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Ken wrote:
>
> So it's a modern pong game ? I have been out of touch with electronic
> games since Intellivision was replaced by Atari and Nentendo.
IMO they haven't gotten that much better since. Just a lot more eye candy.
While I'm not from the pong generation, some of the oldies from XT and 286 are
still my all time favourites. Pong ain't bad, either. It's damn addictive, esp.
in multiplayer mode :)
> Personaly
> I think Pov is the ultimate 3D game in town. Why play in someone else's
> 3D worlds when you can create your own :)
>
The framerate sucks, though. We need more power...
And you can create your own worlds (levels) in Quake et al.
Can be quite fun sometimes.
Margus
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Lance Birch wrote:
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> Speaking of which, the graphics are considerably better and faster if you
> have good enough hardware acceleration...
...Which won't be good enough any more after 6 months or less. I love progress,
but one of these days it'll bankrupt me.
Margus
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pet### [at] usanet (Peter Popov) wrote:
>I personally find it odd that the admin of the official news server
>dedicated to a free raytracing program is posting a message about
>using said server to play a commercial scan-line rendered
>polygon-based game. Just a thought..
Hmmm. Maybe I want to inspire you all to work on methods of implementing the
same functionality using real-time raytracing ... ?
[Seriously, there's no doubt whatsoever in my mind that this will happen. It's
just a matter of when.]
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>Hmmm. Maybe I want to inspire you all to work on methods of implementing
the
>same functionality using real-time raytracing ... ?
>
>[Seriously, there's no doubt whatsoever in my mind that this will happen.
It's
>just a matter of when.]
Hmm... I wonder if the core of POV-Ray could be written to a FPGA using
Viva... now there's an idea... :)
--
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POV-Ray Newsadmin wrote:
> Hmmm. Maybe I want to inspire you all to work on methods of implementing the
> same functionality using real-time raytracing ... ?
>
> [Seriously, there's no doubt whatsoever in my mind that this will happen. It's
> just a matter of when.]
I understand it will be a major topic of discussion again the year at
Siggraph. There is some mention of it by Eric Haines in his most recent
news letter.
--
Ken Tyler
mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net
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