Stippling As Fast 3D Technique

An anonymous reader writes "This Stippling effort wins best paper at IEEE Boston conference. Could real time medical rendering be whizzier than Id?"

whizzier than id?

[pcbob]

Probably not, but it's certainly just as bloody... or maybe i'm underestimating doom III.

The real question is...

[StandardCell]

...when will it be used for pr0n?

Or can we say...

[ejaytee]

Can a bunch of PhDs who are all supposed to know quite a bit about what they are doing, including Purdue EE professors, a researcher or two from IBM TJ Watson, and some almost-PhD graduate students, come up with something as mighty as what Id Software can invent?

Id is great and everything, but gee, I hope the answer is yes, they probably can.

I never know ATI/NVIDIA hires strippers...

[Anonymous Coward]

Forget about hiring computer science majors! Just go to the strip clubs and start sending the headhunters!! Get the same performance for 99+% off!!!

Next advancement in medical imaging

[Woogiemonger]

Rumor has it, doctors will soon be rendering a patient's internal organs with ASCII art.

Re:Or can we say...

[Anonymous Coward]

As a matter of fact, one of my EE professors drove a Ferrari F40 to work on nice days. The gloomy ones were made for the 740i.

His name was Dennis Polla, U of MN EE department. One of the best profs I ever had.

Ancient knowledge brings amazing possibilities.

[Temporal]

From the article:

Ancient artists used a technique called stippling - in which pictures are created by painting or carving a series of tiny dots - to produce drawings on cave walls and utensils thousands of years ago.

Wow, think of what you could do with this! You could print grayscale images using only one color of ink, or color images using only three or four! No longer would we be limited to viewing images on expensive computer and television screens. We could actually print the images on a super-thin sheet of cloth or wood. We could call this new device "paper".

Ancient artists sure were smart.

Maybe this is unrealistic...

[SouperDouper]

Could this be used in a FPS to map people's facial expressions in real time (well, less the appropriate lag). I'd love to be able to see the pissed off look on some guy's face who I've fragged three dozen times straight.

uh oh

[enneff]

"whizzier than Id"

I really, really hope that was an unintentional pun.

Pointalism

[bytesmythe]

Hmm... I've never been a big fan of pointalism. It looks like too much work.

Now, a nice impressionist rendering would be great. Although, I'm not sure I'd want a neurosurgeon screwing around with my brain based on an artistic impression of it.

"Well, see the giant green splotches represent perverted thoughts and... well, there isn't much else to speak of. Apparently, this small yellow part over here is occupied with programming, and it's slowly being invaded by a brown sludgy part which wants some more coffee. Overall, the painting's not worth much, and I certainly wouldn't want it hanging over my couch. Ok... let's make the first incision."

Re:No polygon replacements.

[mhocker]

People at Id don't bother to render and model the organs

Actually, I'd argue that 'rendering' (in the true abattoir sense of the word) is the whole point of Id games...

Technique was **PATENTED**

[Anonymous Coward]

by Grog the caveman under the Digital Millenium Caveman Act over 25,000 years ago.

It is time to PAY Grog's estate and not STEAL the work of these innovators.

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Re:I don't see the point

[pipacs]

I don't see the point

Then this kind of rendering is definitely not for you.