Tech Q: Hardware v. Software - Page 2

On September 20 2012 20:22 chris wrote: and sorry to spam post, but in a further point to the discussion. we cannot write teleportation software or programs for star trek teleporters, because the hardware does not exist. there would be no way to test its functionality. fun discussion.

Well my point was that we are a loooooonnngggg way off from peaking in the software realm. We can write programs to render 100% photo-realistic images of people/objects right now. Heck, look at the special fx in movies like Battleship or LOTR or even the newer Star Wars for that matter. We still cant render scenes like that in real-time, at least not with any enjoyable kind of frame rate. Yet the technology to render all the color and detail necessary to make those special fx look awesome is already out there. So we are still massively playing catch up.