New graphical techonlogy

Guiberu

http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14612-textured-graphics-can-be-captured-in-a-flash.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news2_head_dn14612

Being the science geek that I am I stumbled upon this half an hour ago, the video is rather impressive - although I would like to know how it compares to current tech such as Bump / Normal / Parallax mapping.

What do you guys think?

Fawst

I couldn't hear it here at work, but it looks impressive. I suppose the only limiting factor would be that you have to take a picture of a real world object to get any use of out the technique, but that's not to say it wouldn't be super helpful in certain situations. Cool stuff.

Seol

Guiberu wrote: »

http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14612-textured-graphics-can-be-captured-in-a-flash.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news2_head_dn14612

Being the science geek that I am I stumbled upon this half an hour ago, the video is rather impressive - although I would like to know how it compares to current tech such as Bump / Normal / Parallax mapping.

What do you guys think?

Looks like this isn't a display tech, but a capture tech. The images would still be rendered by a conventional graphics engine, but it'll greatly assist asset creation.

PeregrineFalcon

Seol wrote: »

Guiberu wrote: »

http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14612-textured-graphics-can-be-captured-in-a-flash.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news2_head_dn14612

Being the science geek that I am I stumbled upon this half an hour ago, the video is rather impressive - although I would like to know how it compares to current tech such as Bump / Normal / Parallax mapping.

What do you guys think?

Looks like this isn't a display tech, but a capture tech. The images would still be rendered by a conventional graphics engine, but it'll greatly assist asset creation.

Provided that the assets are being treated as flat textures, of course.

Colour and heightmap me interested though.