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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: rastalant on August 14, 2001, 06:55:17 AM
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http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=IO_20010813_8706
SIGGRAPH 2001 – LOS ANGELES — AUGUST 14, 2000 — The graphics industry took a quantum leap forward today at SIGGRAPH 2001 when NVIDIA® Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) rendered Columbia Pictures’ computer-generated (CG) animated motion picture, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, in real-time. This groundbreaking demonstration takes place in the NVIDIA booth (#1701) and SQUARE booth (#1927) using NVIDIA’s Quadro™ workstation graphics technology, the industry’s leading workstation 3D solutions. Square USA Inc. research and development division developed the software for the technology demo. The real-time demonstration was made possible by NVIDIA’s nfiniteFX™ shading technology, including vertex and pixel shaders, to overcome the technical challenges presented in creating realistic skin, hair, clothing and other organic attributes.
“This interactive demonstration of Final Fantasy is a major achievement for the 3D industry. The realism and subtleties of the images demonstrate the power of the programmable GPU that NVIDIA pioneered,” stated Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO at NVIDIA. “We’ve taken a giant step in visual computing. The work done by Square and NVIDIA is a glimpse at the future of video games and other interactive story telling experiences. We had a great time working with the talented team at Square. Their artist vision is inspiring.”
The Quadro-based workstation renders a single frame in four-tenths of a second, allowing for an interactive, real-time CG scene. For comparison, a single frame from the original movie took over 90 minutes to render. NVIDIA’s GPU enables over 100,000 speed-up over software renderers running on a farm of the fastest supercomputers.
“It has long been an artist’s dream to render CG animation in real-time,” stated Kazuyuki Hashimoto, CTO at Square USA. “This technology demonstration represents the future direction of digital 3D entertainment, simulating human emotions, movements and characteristics through the use of computer-generated graphics.”
Final Fantasy: The Sprits Within represents the first attempt in moviemaking history to simulate human emotions and movements more realistically than any current CG animated film. Ushering in a new form of entertainment, the film links interactive entertainment software and motion pictures while using the latest in computer-generated animated technology.
Hmmmmmm.........interesting maybe NVIDIA has some sort of deal with square. I wonder what the specs on that bad boy is. We proably won\'t see graphics near that until late next generation, if that.:thepimp:
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Holy S*it thats impressive! Square? Nvidia? Together? Xbox?
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Thats what I was thinking. Maybe.:thepimp: :nerd: :thepimp:
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Holy **** is right! Check these screenies out!!!
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nvidia.com%2Fdocs%2FIO%2F1055%2FSUPP%2Faki.jpg&hash=32a0c335e05c1b04d3aac2619473a084be177949)
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nvidia.com%2Fdocs%2FIO%2F1055%2FSUPP%2Fsidandnancy.jpg&hash=e9c188e05662615873b952679e421ae200c044d2)
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nvidia.com%2Fdocs%2FIO%2F1055%2FSUPP%2Fakibumpmap.jpg&hash=179f59ef171025026935e3d857b0c147a0b5a701)
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nvidia.com%2Fdocs%2FIO%2F1055%2FSUPP%2Fsidface.jpg&hash=c98539142ae429462ecc6e390ec08a906fe0b4fe)
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:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
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i almost don\'t believe this...wait, i don\'t. some piece of information is missing...
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believe
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Why would anyone think this has anything to do with the Xbox? Didn\'t Sony create a workstation that rendered the beginning of the Matrix in real-time? Maybe this will be on PS2?!?!?! :rolleyes:
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Originally posted by Gohan
Why would anyone think this has anything to do with the Xbox? Didn\'t Sony create a workstation that rendered the beginning of the Matrix in real-time? Maybe this will be on PS2?!?!?! :rolleyes:
Sony has the GS Cube which is 16 ps2 combined in power so I wonder what that beast can do? They are suppose be using it for cg movie and other things.:thepimp:
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Wonder what the price is on the hardware ;) $9,000???
Sounds too good to be true.
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Originally posted by raslant
Sony has the GS Cube which is 16 ps2 combined in power so I wonder what that beast can do? They are suppose be using it for cg movie and other things.:thepimp:
They eve updated the GSCube, it\'s now the GSCube64, that\'s right 64 PS.2\'s tied together.
When they demoed the original GSCube they lowered the res of some FF scene and altered it in real time, it was quite impressive.
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Originally posted by ProfessorX
Holy S*it thats impressive! Square? Nvidia? Together? Xbox?
How does this have anything to do with X-box?
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64 PS2!!!!!!!!!! Whoa, now thats some power there.:thepimp:
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64 PS2\'s, that\'s almost as powerful as an Xbox!!!!
...just bullsh!ttin\'! :laughing:
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Impressive..
But so can GSCube :)
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Who really cares, these are high end graphic workstations. They have almost nothing to do with consoles. :cool:
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Nothing to do with consoles huh ?
... the N64 was a somewhat stripped down version
of the Silicon Graphics Indy workstation. Same chip.
No my friend, consoles and workstations are like brothers.
The workstation being the bigger one.
Knotter8:D
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Since when is 2fps real time?
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It would be one thing if these workstations were using some high tech chip, but they\'re not. They simply tie a whole lot of slightly enhanced processors together to achieve their performance. You will never see a console that has more than one CPU in it. Well, maybe not ever, but not any time soon. :cool:
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2fps???
GSCube could do a matrix clip in 60fps...
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Originally posted by espo
Since when is 2fps real time?
Lol yeah, that\'s what I was thinking too. But still quite impressive.
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Originally posted by ProfessorX
Holy S*it thats impressive! Square? Nvidia? Together? Xbox?
Holy Sh*t you should work for the Mirror news paper in the UK along with the 3 AM girls with a coment like that.
oh STOP THE PRESS There is an important News flash
CEO of Sony uses MS word and powerpoint to work on Sonys next press confrence thats right sony are waving the white flag and handing over control to MS.
Holy Sh*t all of the sony games must be coming out on the X Box and they will be better !
Hang on Final Fantasy X it hads a X game ......... it must be X Box bound.
Oh and 21th century Fox thats got a X in it too well DONE BILL
And finally that Arcade game from AREO SMITH Generation X must be a X box launch title too oh.......... forgot it was only not totaly SH*t in the Arcade :laughing:.
Sorry to say it but just because Square used Nvidia dose not mean Bill is involved for Fook sake.
please try and make your MS Troll Spam less obvious in the Future :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
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HAHAH.. :laughing: :laughing:
Thats funny ooseven..
Im glad youre back :D
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well i think its nice that they acheived this but i see no reason to mention any of this as console related
because all this means nothing really