Procedural Synthesis: gaming's fountain of youth?

This image is from .kkrieger, a game that with Unreal graphics less than 97 kilobytes in size ... for the entire game. So what is its secret? A technique known as procedural synthesis (or procedural generation) that, in a nutshell, uses clever and complex algorithms to make graphics, as opposed to pre-set artwork made by a design team. Thus, the procedural graphics are run by the processor and improve (or degrade) with the CPU speed. An example of a game based off this idea is Will Wright's Spore.

[Trickedbullet]

That is amazing for only less than a megabyte of data!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[pRo loGic II]

Procedural Synthesis is all we need right now. Oblivion is so large i almost hate it for that. MS was smart not to jump in like Sony with the large capasidy disc. Games too big will be a drag.

[AuburnTiger]

why do you say it'll be a drag?

[Liverpool4ever]

huh?

[pRo loGic II]

Unless the games a masterpeice a game too large will get boring and repetitive, people have other games, families, jobs, and real life to deal with too. I would not play games 4-8 times Oblivion's size.

[mikeeno7]

Yet more proof why Blu-Ray is not needed, and further proof that Sony is only pushing its new movie format, instead of focusing on videogames...

[sa73917]

Just because one user on one website decides he doesn't want to play games that fit on anything bigger than a DVD you decide that's PROOF why Sony has chosen a wrong format.. Probably not worth checking with all the other prospective owners then, they'd only muck up your detailed statistical analysis....

[Tempo]

In the article on about.com the writer makes refernce to procedural synthesis making backwards compatible games look better. Correct me if i'm wrong but i dont see how a systems processor can have much of an effect on game graphics than an increase of the game's speed. How is the already written pixel(artist drawn )code instruction on the game disc gonna change just by implementing PS.

[ironwolf]

The graphics are produced by an algorithm that describes the scenes content and tells the processor to produce it to the best of it's ability. A low powered processor therefor produces a lower quality output than a highpowered one.

[ironwolf]

Upgraded graphics on an upgraded machine only applies if the game was written with procedural analysis to start with.

[ironwolf]

my bad

[REDMOND BOYZZ]

A duel layered DVD9 with Procedural Synthesis is E-nuff for gaming unless you want to watch an hours worth of CGI cut scens every 20 minutes. I just picked up Oblivion and it took me more than an hour; riding a horse from one end to the middle of the province. What do Sony fans want to change these charectors clothes every day of the week.

[96impala]

So im wondering after reading this, will ms be incorporating this in the future with a bunch of games. I dont know enough about it but from what i read this sounds like a God send for the xbox 360.

[bung tickler]

they already have. the trees in oblivion are all done in this manner.

[Anerythristic26]

Makes Bluray look so last gen. Haha. It is a more interesting tech than just using a disk with mor space.

[Say's you]

Your such an idiot you don't even know what your talking when really thats a good thing getting more space on the disc like 50Gigabytes you are such a douche loGic II man you don't even know what you just said or even know

what you were saying is there an echo inside that head of your's or did you forget to pay for the eletric bill for your brain to work lol

[Say's you]

You call that real please comeback and call me when you got some real proggress knowing thats not even close to proggress at all even the graphics in Final Fantasy VI Advent Children looks better then this crap and even the PS3 graphics is even better then this shoot

Blu Ray and the PS3's graphics is much better then this bogus sh1t.