With a break, of course, because even such realism was very slow. If it was vice versa, transistors needed a second pass. But a number of transistors must be GREATER than a number of pixels. Everything was simple before shaders: programmers used a sliding rule (it was done by transistors in GPUs NVIDIA, ATI, and 3dfx had special departments to equip all transistors with sliding rules) to multiply, divide, get mean values - it was done to get a color number. Yep, at first programmers had drawn triangles on a white sheet, painted them, and told users about photorealism. The two suns were dull and artificial, only people in Montreal liked them.Īnd there came shaders. Matrox exerted itself intending to overcome its competitors. Millennium was over as well as Voodoo, no one was attracted by the famous name. Savage was caught, tied and thrown to the VIA reservation, where this company lives on the house. Voodoo went bankrupt (no one came to its shrines anymore and left money there), RAGE died of shame for its bilinear filtering and changed the name to RADEON, a starname no one heard of. The new philosophy came to replace the old one - Rivism! Yeah, only Riva. 128õ128 16-bit textures were not enough anymore. You could see another world behind the display, it was not flat anymore. He knew that if a game bore the 3dfx label, it must be cool. He scorned the appearance of 3D accelerators - 'who needs to pay extra money for game decorations?' Days turned to weeks and months, the glide was calling, post processing was luring, texturing and raster units were bewitching. Because he was experienced with computers.

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