2006-02-05

The Informatic Purpose

What do You think about informatic ? Who, in your opinion, is a coder ?
In my opinion informatic is the science to manipulate tomorrow what you understand now, but 100 time faster! That's only my opinion but think about videogames ? Don't you notice that they grow in complexity and detail or they are simply more complex than Pac-man and '89 company?

It's not only a businness affair or a big manpower creation, inside , there is the grow of previous code kept in mind from the authors of a program. When many coders create some particular graphical effect programmatically, someone from the Hardware side notice that and start to support this piece of code inside the electician logic of an hardware component.

For example : years ago many games tried to create the water effect programmatically, merging translucent texture blue tinted with an animated water texture.... Today there are traslucent effect and shaders, to give this particular effect. But , at the beginning there was many code lines, now only a few directives to the GL / DirectX drivers.

In this year many videogames are trying to put a real phisic inside the code, speaking with Havoc engine or similar . Tomorrow I think someone will get some dedicated Hardware only for that. It's a continuous rabbit game ... if you understand what I'm saying.

If you think that the mirror effect (lev. 1 and lev.2 ) inside my No One Shoots Forever game is obtained with a few code lines... you are wrong, I'm enough mad to have programmatically created it !? And I'm a fool if you think that the technology has already been created;
heheheheh... I hope.Ciao.

LHN

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