John Carmack on id Tech 6, Ray Tracing, Consoles, Physics and more

I believe we touched on ray tracing in one AutoCAD
class I took ( AutoCAD 11 ). My vector days were
with an Apple II .. or a ZX80 .. I forget. Starting to
sound like JC wants us all running Quadro 5600s
on quad cores ... and crappy games. One 5600
costs more than my entire game box, and my
game box is an 8800 in a Duo 6750. Lord !

They need to get busy at Intel, and put all of this
on one chip.

johns

"johns" wrote in message
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I believe we touched on ray tracing in one AutoCAD
class I took ( AutoCAD 11 ). My vector days were
with an Apple II .. or a ZX80 .. I forget.

I seriously doubt that you had a vector-scan display
on either of those, actually.

Vector-scan != line-drawing in general.

If you want to see what a real vector-scan display
looks - or at least LOOKED - like, take a look at
this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1eNjUgaB-g

Bob M.

I had an Analog Devices chip that would do
beam steering on an old scope. That is all
I remember that looks like the YouTube demo.
I think I remember a book on graphics on
an Apple II, and one of the chapters was
"vector graphics", and I went through the
excercises, and actually drew one line
across the TV screen. My biggest, world
class, achievement at the time was getting
the letter "A" programmed right in the middle
of the screen. Those were the days. JC was
probably in diapers.

johns

"johns" wrote in message
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I had an Analog Devices chip that would do
beam steering on an old scope. That is all
I remember that looks like the YouTube demo.
I think I remember a book on graphics on
an Apple II, and one of the chapters was
"vector graphics", and I went through the
excercises, and actually drew one line
across the TV screen. My biggest, world
class, achievement at the time was getting
the letter "A" programmed right in the middle
of the screen. Those were the days. JC was
probably in diapers.

johns

It's pretty ironic since at your age you're the one wearing the diapers now.

Bob Loblaw wrote:
"johns" wrote in message
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I had an Analog Devices chip that would do
beam steering on an old scope. That is all
I remember that looks like the YouTube demo.
I think I remember a book on graphics on
an Apple II, and one of the chapters was
"vector graphics", and I went through the
excercises, and actually drew one line
across the TV screen. My biggest, world
class, achievement at the time was getting
the letter "A" programmed right in the middle
of the screen. Those were the days. JC was
probably in diapers.

johns

It's pretty ironic since at your age you're the one wearing the diapers now.


Christ, there's a vision. Thanks Bob.