this video is cool and all i guess but how do you animate dots
this has been a thing since voxels were introduced in the early 2000s, getting them to…
Notch agrees: It’s probably a scam.
Nope, stopping you right there.
Fuck Notch. He doesn’t have his facts straight. Notch is pointing fingers and making baseless assumptions (note: it isn’t actually voxel technology, paragraph at the very bottom), and people are stupidly taking his words as fact AND misunderstanding the meaning of “scam” in context as “fake, lies, doesn’t actually exist.”
As far as I know, Unlimited Detail was announced back in 2010, with a follow-up video around March of the same year (original link). The original videos were made long before they came together as the company now known as Euclideon - And yes, this is verified as being the same group. Same guy talking, and the head video in this post takes clips from previous videos.
It’s highly understandable that people would doubt this new technology, especially considering that they’ve been vague on details, and haven’t provided character examples as of late (that’s not to say that they haven’t provided small animation examples, because I’ve just discovered that they have, right here). Euclideon IS aiming very high, and the claims they’ve made are really quite large, but that doesn’t mean they’re outright scamming.
Basically, Notch doesn’t know shit. Nobody does, but we shouldn’t outright deny it just because it seems impossible. Technology evolves. We need more information on the tech itself before we can really say whether it’s a scam or not.
Refusing to release any verifiable details, or interview with tech zines, or live demo your product, is pretty suspicious.
Technology does evolve, but leaping on this and saying it’s the future when they haven’t even proven anything besides the fact that they can run a renderer and talk over a video is a bit premature. I’m not going to just take the hype at face value if they are refusing to actually show it to anybody. That paragraph you mention I don’t trust because they don’t deserve any of my trust.
If I showed videos of a hovercar, and talked about how it worked, but then never actually showed anybody the hovercar or released my discovery to the public, would you take me seriously?
This shit reminds me of the Phantom debacle. Technology proposed and endlessly hyped, then nothing actually goes anywhere and half a decade later somebody does an approximation of the original.
Basically, calm yo tits.
Edit: Also, look at this video of sparse voxel octree tech, which Notch references but never actually links. Here’s the research paper on it. While you are correct in saying that it’s hardly like classical voxels, it very much does resemble SVO tech.
(Source: diarrheaworldstarhiphop)
