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Photon Race 2 by Archee [web]
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screenshot added by archee on 2008-08-27 10:15:11
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release date : august 2008
release party : NVScene 2008
compo : pc 4k
ranked : 3rd
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popularity : 70%
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alltime top: #408
added on the 2008-08-27 10:15:10 by archee archee

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Super sexy, once again :)
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 10:26:36 by Intrinsic Intrinsic
SUPERBRILLIANT code!
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 10:28:27 by smash smash
Breathtaking, very elegant! And nice music, too.
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 10:36:54 by xTr1m xTr1m
Kicked my ass!
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 10:38:29 by besh besh
not even 1fps with the low version here :-/ but even at a slideshow pace i can see this is amazing raytracing in 4k :)
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 10:42:41 by keito keito
hell yeah! not really real time on high version, but you just RULE.
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 11:04:07 by zzo zzo
Amazing rendering.
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 11:05:33 by psonice psonice
Cool
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 11:18:42 by Pulsar Pulsar
\0/
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 11:39:30 by Baz Baz
Oh yes
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 11:55:22 by ravity ravity
this one was just great! :o

(your neighbors @ buenzli =)
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 12:19:11 by nula nula
Cool stuff!
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 12:24:59 by Ized Ized
Got only black screan and music =(
Radeon x1950 winxp
added on the 2008-08-27 12:29:46 by #535 #535
Verry nice !
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 12:50:16 by Anat Anat
What a magical moment, seeing this moving. It looks so awesome, but it would have been cool to have more demo style in it. Faster camera, more twists and a different music style. It's a bit too calm for me, but visually a full blast!
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 12:57:22 by Bobic Bobic
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 13:31:13 by las las
Something I don't need to see to thumb up.
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 13:36:27 by xernobyl xernobyl
lol so fucking heavy !! but still great SS ! =D
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 13:37:18 by panic panic
16 minutes precalc here -_-
I'll back with new machine... in 2015
added on the 2008-08-27 13:49:26 by EviL EviL
Awesome...
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 13:50:07 by Buckethead Buckethead
Shines!
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 16:24:00 by remageFrs remageFrs
Slow as hell, yet an amazing thing to pull off
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 16:51:34 by Duckers Duckers
neat
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 18:03:49 by gngbng gngbng
It looks really neat, but it is rather dull. Still; nice technical achievement. :)
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 18:13:28 by gloom gloom
As mentioned by everybody, looks awesome, feels dull. Thumb for the looks :)
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 18:14:21 by Puryx Puryx
ray my pov
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 20:13:21 by vscd vscd
tech rulage.
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 20:20:07 by tomaes tomaes
It moves :)
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 20:23:20 by magic magic
we are not worthy!
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 20:26:20 by Zest Zest
Holy shit! I expect it needs a beast of a machine to run, but the video looked incredible. This is the sort of thing Nvidia should use to show off their technology.
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 23:48:11 by Wade Wade
this is completely gorgeous! well done!
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 23:54:49 by blackpawn blackpawn
needs some hw powah! but its looking fecking nice!
rulez added on the 2008-08-27 23:59:09 by gentleman gentleman
That’s absolutely impressive - it looks so much better than Photon-Race 1, the camera moves, music and this all only a few days later. Thumb up!
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 00:02:26 by Admiral^Elyssis Admiral^Elyssis
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 00:02:30 by aha aha
good looking - next up: silly robots wrestling in shattering glass? :D
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 00:06:32 by booster booster
Super slick mega boredom generator.
added on the 2008-08-28 00:09:04 by hitchhikr hitchhikr
This worked better as 4k gfx, to be honest. Nice raytracing or whatever it is, but after a few moments I'm done marvelling at the technical achievement and want something more interesting.

Still, having rendering like this in 4k with sound and all is pretty damn awesome codewise, so I really can't give this a thumb down.
added on the 2008-08-28 00:10:34 by stijn stijn
Gorgeous!
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 00:20:00 by Alpha C Alpha C
excellency codewise.
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 00:21:29 by mad mad
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 00:32:32 by PENETRATOR PENETRATOR
the code is ace.
but its a bit too similar to your 4k procedural gfx for me
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 00:34:13 by gopher gopher
wow!
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 00:45:21 by cynic cynic
impressive
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 01:08:21 by EviL EviL
Worked a lot better as the 4k gfx. The rendering quality is turned down a lot, the framerate is really too low to be enjoyable (for any decent quality) and the camera movements etc is not really what I would call an intro.
added on the 2008-08-28 02:41:21 by Psycho Psycho
I agree it's slow, but it rules anyway. :)

Capped.TV & Video
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 07:41:26 by micksam7 micksam7
what gloom said
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 08:34:40 by wullon wullon
great one :D
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 09:36:38 by highlife highlife
what wullon said
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 09:46:13 by LiraNuna LiraNuna
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 10:13:24 by kurli kurli
Best glass I've seen in a scene production. ;)
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 10:20:50 by Blueberry Blueberry
jaw dropped
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 10:42:49 by farfar farfar
another heavy achievement here. gratz,archee :)
Realtime-Raytracing in 4k,what time is it again? ah,2008 :)
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 11:10:27 by ɧ4ɾɗվ. ɧ4ɾɗվ.
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 11:12:44 by src src
The future is now, just have to wait 10 years for the hardware :) tech tech
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 11:17:39 by Zplex Zplex
me likes. hopefully opencl will be finished soon ;)
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 12:33:06 by muhmac muhmac
amazing!
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 12:50:24 by v3nom v3nom
Coolest RTRT so far!

Surprisingly fast, I think (with some semi-recent dualcore amd)...
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 13:06:57 by tonic tonic
super!
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 13:09:34 by Manwe Manwe
Excellent.
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 13:11:25 by keops keops
:)
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 13:12:00 by texel texel
looking very nice but gets a piggie for just rotating the camera instead of actually doing something with the thing
added on the 2008-08-28 14:38:50 by psenough psenough
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 14:56:36 by xeNusion xeNusion
should have won. imho
next time moving stuff please ;)
added on the 2008-08-28 15:23:20 by las las
Coder pr0n and a tune.
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 15:33:43 by raer raer
black screen only (with music) on 7900 nvidia card...
added on the 2008-08-28 15:47:30 by Tigrou Tigrou
Wow!
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 16:38:17 by Optimus Optimus
Great models, but more action please.
added on the 2008-08-28 17:41:51 by zefyros zefyros
can it be more static? I don't care if the rendering is cool actually.
sucks added on the 2008-08-28 18:25:31 by thec thec
Whoa!!
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 18:38:43 by ryiinn ryiinn
looks even more photorealistic than the still from buenzli. nice tune!
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 20:21:49 by Ger Ger
Is there a low_low available?
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 20:29:23 by Al3x Al3x
F*cking beautiful! / Kiba... jó! :)
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 20:56:45 by rascy rascy
omg wtf!
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 21:22:08 by decca decca
Looked good, but the camera and sound sucks big time. Thumb for the visuals.
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 21:42:49 by shash shash
technically impressive ... but way too slow on my machine :(
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 22:07:15 by BiTbUsTeR BiTbUsTeR
Oh, they even had a Cray 2 as compo machine???

Seriously, this is some mad coding effort!
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 22:53:42 by Stebo Stebo
impressive visuals... but a bit boring sadly.
rulez added on the 2008-08-28 22:54:35 by Proteque Proteque
I love the blue glas here.
rulez added on the 2008-08-29 00:36:53 by quisten quisten
the medium-1024x768 version runs beautifully here (r4850) but no music, which is weird. i liked the still version so it follows i like this. :)
rulez added on the 2008-08-29 00:40:19 by phoenix phoenix
Astounding!
rulez added on the 2008-08-29 07:39:27 by yesso yesso
Impressive raytraced sequence with good music in 4k
rulez added on the 2008-08-29 08:40:35 by BackSpace BackSpace
really nice, but too slow for a thumb up (ATI 2600XT)
added on the 2008-08-29 08:55:38 by RA RA
Aua
rulez added on the 2008-08-29 10:32:52 by rp rp
Nice. Gets a bit boring after a while though.
rulez added on the 2008-08-29 16:22:39 by wb wb
great code... but would have been rocked more if you would have done some effects with it... instead of just a fly by... now it looks good but gets boring after some time...
rulez added on the 2008-08-29 17:24:39 by ultra ultra
What everyone who said it worked better as a 4k gfx said..
rulez added on the 2008-08-30 09:23:36 by leijaa leijaa
the demo was running too slow. (1-2fps)
but great code.
rulez added on the 2008-08-30 10:20:44 by got got
rulez added on the 2008-08-30 19:29:46 by relias abardon relias abardon
I've always been great fond of raytracing so this really was cool. The whole concept reminds me about topics from 1992-1996, during the DKB, Vivid, PovRay time, when guys like Coy spoke about "realtime raytracing" :) Nice nice and it runs fine on my box in high res.
added on the 2008-08-30 19:34:23 by Xiny6581 Xiny6581
rulez added on the 2008-08-30 21:34:32 by wie8 wie8
when trying to unpack, antivir keeps telling me about a TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen Trojan horse, why is that?
added on the 2008-08-30 22:00:00 by ello ello
Great looking! :D
rulez added on the 2008-08-31 13:40:26 by Zeila Zeila
Fantastic coding
rulez added on the 2008-08-31 14:15:20 by Joghurt Joghurt
very impressive.
rulez added on the 2008-08-31 16:17:30 by glow glow
not as fun to watch as h4vok, but very beautiful and impressive
rulez added on the 2008-08-31 16:20:22 by hollowman hollowman
Thumbs for not having a gazillion of cubes
rulez added on the 2008-08-31 18:53:26 by evil evil
The first words out of my mouth as it started running was "Holy *bleep*!" A really impressive in4k.
rulez added on the 2008-09-01 01:40:06 by deathy deathy
very impressive. like it!
rulez added on the 2008-09-01 19:05:44 by spoke spoke
very realistic glass
rulez added on the 2008-09-02 20:01:52 by malken malken
coder p0rn at its very very best!
rulez added on the 2008-09-03 11:34:43 by toxie toxie
impressive
rulez added on the 2008-09-03 11:38:15 by blz blz
pure pr0n !
rulez added on the 2008-09-03 13:19:27 by MsK` MsK`
hot.
rulez added on the 2008-09-03 20:56:13 by GbND GbND
:o
rulez added on the 2008-09-04 00:07:59 by LSnK LSnK
Very nice!
rulez added on the 2008-09-04 02:13:33 by Clarence Clarence
Amazing coding.. and doesn't run too shabbily on a GTX 280, either.
rulez added on the 2008-09-04 02:27:51 by polartimecast polartimecast
Great!
rulez added on the 2008-09-04 03:13:27 by bdk bdk
very impressive!
rulez added on the 2008-09-04 07:30:23 by dwarf dwarf
c0derpr0n!!
rulez added on the 2008-09-04 23:49:19 by loaderror loaderror
What loady said!
rulez added on the 2008-09-04 23:51:25 by kusma kusma
Great!!!
rulez added on the 2008-09-05 23:32:37 by bitl bitl
nice rays.
rulez added on the 2008-09-06 03:17:24 by Claw Claw
rulez added on the 2008-09-06 15:08:00 by Mystra Mystra
rulez added on the 2008-09-06 15:14:41 by chromag chromag
Unplayable on my old PC. Looks nice in MP4 format. However, I saw shimmerings on the edges when not moving. Is that part of the source or encoding?
added on the 2008-09-06 21:57:23 by AntDude AntDude
<3 Archee
rulez added on the 2008-09-07 03:33:55 by Queen_Luna Queen_Luna
isn't the screenshot already pr0n enough? :D
music wasn't really good, though.
rulez added on the 2008-09-07 17:48:16 by Saga Musix Saga Musix
Coderporn!
rulez added on the 2008-09-07 22:33:58 by Cosmocat Cosmocat
black screen and music x1900, win xp sp2, latest drivers.
added on the 2008-09-08 23:30:13 by auld auld
looks great
rulez added on the 2008-09-09 20:49:31 by fiveofive fiveofive
3000 stills of 4k procedural gfx winners
rulez added on the 2008-09-09 21:08:50 by Steel Steel
A perfect example of lovely code, lovely technology and utterly shit design.
rulez added on the 2008-09-10 21:44:45 by Preacher Preacher
It's really Awesome!!!
rulez added on the 2008-09-15 18:29:02 by FenolFtalein FenolFtalein
Great!
rulez added on the 2008-09-24 21:49:30 by wiseman wiseman
Cool!
rulez added on the 2008-09-25 13:16:16 by noid noid
So wow!! ... iam speachless
So nice objects, good Synth and a totally convincing rendering. Is this real raytracing or is the refraction a fake?
rulez added on the 2008-09-25 14:08:15 by muh muh
the code rules.
rulez added on the 2008-09-25 23:38:56 by Hyde Hyde
great code but rather boring presentation. the tune is quite nice though.
added on the 2008-09-25 23:57:04 by StingRay StingRay
re-releasing the same thing twice is no good.
sucks added on the 2008-09-26 00:25:38 by decipher decipher
W T F
rulez added on the 2008-09-29 21:03:11 by leGend leGend
Excellent code, music and not to forget eye-candy!
rulez added on the 2008-10-03 10:28:41 by PurpleScroll PurpleScroll
++
rulez added on the 2008-10-18 19:36:33 by cyberpingui cyberpingui
only saw the YT vid,but AMAZING!
rulez added on the 2008-11-16 07:10:21 by polygon polygon
woot
rulez added on the 2009-01-10 16:16:17 by T$ T$
There should be laws that forbid rocking that much.
rulez added on the 2009-08-08 22:57:25 by Zavie Zavie
how?
rulez added on the 2009-08-15 20:04:58 by René Madenmann René Madenmann
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rulez added on the 2010-01-11 22:07:47 by F7sus4 F7sus4
rulez added on the 2010-02-13 14:22:32 by Quarryman Quarryman
this is sick
rulez added on the 2010-02-13 14:39:01 by SiR SiR
I really LOVE your stuff!!
rulez added on the 2010-03-09 11:34:36 by nekomono nekomono
Stunning!
rulez added on the 2010-04-23 17:48:20 by jack-3d jack-3d
Speechless.
rulez added on the 2010-05-11 19:15:48 by Hicks Hicks
What Hicks "says"!
rulez added on the 2010-08-08 11:54:22 by baah baah
The glass is so beutiful! And this is 4096 bytes?!?! OMG! Dude, you rock! I have never known that so much amazing stuff can be done in realtime even with a decent GPU...
added on the 2010-09-18 02:26:51 by unfa unfa
Impressive.
rulez added on the 2010-09-18 02:43:37 by Jakim Jakim
booooring
added on the 2011-01-04 15:46:44 by joooo joooo
great 4k
rulez added on the 2011-01-09 01:53:29 by spritus spritus
AWESOME! I love it <3
rulez added on the 2011-08-07 22:08:14 by rez rez
Yes.
rulez added on the 2011-08-24 13:02:31 by ferris ferris
Best glass shader I've seen yet.
rulez added on the 2013-08-03 10:51:14 by TomoAlien TomoAlien
eyecandy! sick 4k!
rulez added on the 2013-08-03 11:17:18 by sensenstahl sensenstahl
this is insane. dude, what the fuck?!
rulez added on the 2013-10-13 17:48:33 by provod provod
rulez added on the 2015-02-09 11:22:59 by p01 p01
Good 4k.
rulez added on the 2015-02-24 19:14:19 by kaoD kaoD
Very nice
rulez added on the 2016-08-14 16:09:31 by golem golem
great one, featuring Pohár :D
rulez added on the 2017-04-21 12:53:37 by nagz nagz
Seems to just crash
rulez added on the 2017-04-21 22:01:40 by yzi yzi
I do like it as an exercise in rendering technique, though of course a lot of it is precalced and thus very static.

Other than that, it's forgettable and by now hardly remarkable at all. Thumb goes up because it was one of the first 4k intros I saw and I was very impressed back then (though a lot more so with texas, in the same compo).
rulez added on the 2017-04-28 13:33:19 by noby noby
Belated thumb for a historic prod from one of the best 4k compos in the past decade.
rulez added on the 2018-09-11 20:08:47 by moozooh moozooh

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