In this in-depth technical article, Neversoft co-founder West examines how procedural generated content and compression can lead to expanding vistas for your open-world games
In this Intel-sponsored feature, part of the Gamasutra Visual Computing microsite, Lightspeed Publishing's Lee Purcell lays out deferred mode image processing, which speeds up complex
image-processing tasks with up to 3X performance increases.
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Intel/Gamasutra's Exclusive Visual Computing Blog - October 6, 2008
In an interesting historically-tinted blog post, Nick Porcino looks at various methods of contouring in graphics rendering, starting off with the marching cubes algorithm first introduced during... [Full article]
Intel/Gamasutra's Exclusive Visual Computing Blog - October 2, 2008
In this video session, Intel graphics and game technologist Ron Fosner introduces the principles of designing game engines that scale to an arbitrary number of cores.
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Intel Software Network Graphics Blog - September 16, 2008
Epic Games, and Intel have teamed up on the “$1 Million Intel Make Something Unreal Contest” to follow up the 2004 “$1 Million Make Something Unreal” mod-making contest with... [Full article]
