Evolution of Graphics...

[Helpmeh]

In like 10 years tha graphics are going to be real life.  Like a movie.  Like a blue ray movie.  I have crysis and those graphics are amazing!

In like 10 years we won't have 2d graphics any more. EVERYTHING WILL BE HOLOGRAMS!

[BC_Programmer]

In like 10 years we won't have 2d graphics any more. EVERYTHING WILL BE HOLOGRAMS!

10 years ago we had 3-d.


we still have 3d.

[liambiscuit]

10 years ago we had 3-d.


we still have 3d.

You forgot one:
10 years from now we'll have 4D

[kpac]

You forgot one:
10 years from now we'll have 4D

4D = What? W axis, X axis, Y axis, and Z axis? Where does the W axis go? It's not possible to have 4 axis'.

[liambiscuit]

Thats the joke.

[BC_Programmer]

technically, we don't HAVE 3-d.


we have a 3-d projection onto a 2-d space.

[patio]

Actually we only have 1D and fool ourselves into thinking we have more than that...

[BC_Programmer]

yes. we all live in varying degrees of pain.


(let this be known as the point the discussion suddenly turns philisophic)

[patio]

We need a smilie for that.....

[BC_Programmer]

I was totally serial. 

[Geek-9pm]

OK. Every body Smile!     

A few years from now Graphic Displays will be of little interest to most people.

Example, When I was a child, a long time ago, we had innovations in the Movie industry to compete with Television. Stereo, Wide screen and effects you can not duplicate on a small screen. So after all these years only a few people now have huge projection TVs, which have been around for years.

And the Movie people are back into 3-D again.
Oh My! what will they think of next?
Free Popcorn? -No Way!
 

[Helpmeh]

4D = What? W axis, X axis, Y axis, and Z axis? Where does the W axis go? It's not possible to have 4 axis'.

Because we live in a 3D world, we can't possibly contemplate what the fourth D is. If we can think of it, then it can't possibly be the fourth D.

[Aegis]

Actually we only have 1D and fool ourselves into thinking we have more than that...

Patio, you're such a killjoy!   

Because we live in a 3D world, we can't possibly contemplate what the fourth D is. If we can think of it, then it can't possibly be the fourth D.

The fourth dimension is Time.  The old master, Albert Einstein -- a moment of silence, please! -- conceived this nearly a hundred years ago.

A few years from now Graphic Displays will be of little interest to most people.

If that were true, the Internet would not have become so graphics intensive over the last ten or fifteen years.   

[Helpmeh]

Patio, you're such a killjoy!   

The fourth dimension is Time.  The old master, Albert Einstein -- a moment of silence, please! -- conceived this nearly a hundred years ago.


If that were true, the Internet would not have become so graphics intensive over the last ten or fifteen years.  

Can you prove that the fourth dimension is time?

[BC_Programmer]

Because we live in a 3D world, we can't possibly contemplate what the fourth D is. If we can think of it, then it can't possibly be the fourth D.

Actually, we can.

Time, as Aegis said, is a dimension. The difference being that although objects can move freely in all three X,Y and Z axes, they move through time at a constant* speed.




The fact is, Time IS a dimension- it's a linear dimension just like X,Y and Z axes. difference being, as said, that it can only be moved through forward at a constant speed.


Time travel would allow one to have four degrees of freedom.

****nitpicker's corner*****

*Although gravity and velocity influences can impact how "constant" this is, from the reference frame of the object it is constant.