Tuesday, 20 May 2014

FMX: High-End Graphics For New Game Platforms

Development from Handhelds to Consoles and PC's.
By Dr. Jon G Peddie

Pc gaming - $8.4 Billion in 2013. 
Math is the foundation, as math was being developed, hardware was developed. 

The Antikythera device 82 BCE

Whilwind 1950. This is rthe start of cg. Created from the fear of Russians.
SAGE was born.
A military grade version of the Whirlwind computer was developed for the US Air Force SAGE project.
Charles W. Adams & John T Gilmore Jr. developed the first animated computer graphics game.
NIMROD - built by Ferranti 1951 first dedicated computer for gaming.
1962 Steve "Slug" Russell led MIT team who created the first video game.
1983 Atari 3D-polygonal game.
Irobot 3D fps on pc 1992 - Wolfenstein 3D
We covered a bit about the Moore's law. He came prepared with charts and facts.

Mobile gaming is good, but will never be awesome!
Purely because they don't have enough power.

Sensorama 1956 - virtual reality.

Iran southerland 1968 first real time virtual reality.

He is a very interesting man, clearly very passionate about his job.
He left us with his e-mail in case we have any questions or just want to have a chat about all this, with a promise that he always replies! It's clear to me that he really loves his job and is happy to share all this knowledge. 

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