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Author Topic: Unlimited Detail Engine  (Read 20427 times)

solrac42

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Unlimited Detail Engine
« on: April 08, 2013, 12:10:54 pm »
Hello,

This is my first post on this forum, the technology of the Outerra Engine is interesting but I have seen a fairly recent new technology 3D engine based on the idea of using atoms to build the 3D world without the use of polygons, and all in software, no hardware acceleration.

The software company is based in Brisbane Australia,  http://www.euclideon.com.

What do you think of this technology for your Outerra project ? 
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Re: Unlimited Detail Engine
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2013, 12:36:21 pm »
There has been a thread about it way back: http://www.outerra.com/forum/index.php?topic=389.0

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What do you think of this technology for your Outerra project ? 
There's little to no info about how it works, which kind of smells. But looking at other such projects that are much more honest and less smokey, like the Procedural World or Atomontage, these have some very nice properties. Generally it's all about various approaches to compression of the scene data; OT uses its own techniques to get both the planetary scale and the ground level detail.

We also have some ideas how to gain some of the capabilities of these engines, but combining the advantages while not carrying over the disadvantages is by no means a trivial task.
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Re: Unlimited Detail Engine
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2013, 02:33:49 am »
It would seem that Euclideon is about to resurface, they posted a video this morning showing their Geospatial software. They also say in the description of the video that they haven't given up on gaming. 
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Re: Unlimited Detail Engine
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2013, 03:54:18 am »
looks awesome :D Now they only have to come up with this technology in a game engine ;)
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Re: Unlimited Detail Engine
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2013, 09:36:11 am »
Notice how they disabled comments and ratings.
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Re: Unlimited Detail Engine
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2013, 09:43:48 am »
understand that I have my doubts about Euclideon
http://notch.tumblr.com/post/8386977075/its-a-scam
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Re: Unlimited Detail Engine
« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2013, 11:26:42 am »
NOTCH KNOWS ALL  ::)
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Re: Unlimited Detail Engine
« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2013, 11:32:52 am »
Has a great potential in historical-items digitalization and preservation ...
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Re: Unlimited Detail Engine
« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2013, 01:10:03 pm »
That guy has the least trustworthy voice ever.
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Re: Unlimited Detail Engine
« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2013, 07:58:13 pm »
True :)
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Re: Unlimited Detail Engine
« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2013, 03:41:17 am »
I think Miguel Cepero summed it up pretty well here: http://procworld.blogspot.com/2013/05/euclideon-geoverse-2013.html
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Re: Unlimited Detail Engine
« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2013, 07:12:50 pm »
Appears to be a few new testimonies that seem to support this engine
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Re: Unlimited Detail Engine
« Reply #12 on: September 24, 2014, 11:40:26 pm »
They're back....



lol This guy is SUCH a douche!...  ::)

And now they'll disappear for another year or 2 before they show us animation.

lol I'm surprised he showed a close-up of that logo..... That's not pretty.....
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Re: Unlimited Detail Engine
« Reply #13 on: September 25, 2014, 01:47:43 am »
As i said - " historical-items digitalization and preservation" ... doe, i see that none of that machines will hit SVK for another two decades as even our single deep-layer (for wall and painting research) did not much work till yet. ...
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Re: Unlimited Detail Engine
« Reply #14 on: September 25, 2014, 10:52:48 am »
Quote from: Jagerbomber on September 24, 2014, 11:40:26 pm
They're back....



lol This guy is SUCH a douche!...  ::)

And now they'll disappear for another year or 2 before they show us animation.

lol I'm surprised he showed a close-up of that logo..... That's not pretty.....

their technique makes animation pretty much impossible, as well as dynamic lighting or moving objects or anything that stops the scene from being static.
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