Uttar
10-29-02, 10:52 AM
In the recently released Are You Ready video on the nVidia website, everyone would like to think there are hints in it.
But it isn't by hoping you're gonna find them - and that's why i tried to find suspect things in the video.
So let's make a favor to nVidia and try to guess it all!
Between 0:13-0:15, if you pause the video, you can see black images being put on.
On the right, there seems to be a siren. In the middle, maybe some type of harpy ( there seems to be wings, but i'm not sure ). You can't see the bottom of the harpy and the only clothes she have is to protect her breast.
About the same thing can be said of the siren, beside that you can see her tail ( that's how you call the bottom of a siren, right? If it isn't, sorry. Please correct me, my native language isn't English after all )
I'm NOT being pervert and inventing things. This is really the only image i can see. If anyone got to be called pervert, then it's nVidia, LOL.
Please do not think this justifies the GeSpot rumor. Thank you.
Between 0:17 and 0:21, if you pause the video and put your monitor contrast/brightness to the maximum ( it's really dark by default ) , you can see a GPU ( Or anyway, i'd guess it's a GPU. It could just as well be a CPU or something else )
I've got no idea what type of GPU this is. At the same time, there's the "From the creators of the GeForce4" comment, so i'd guess it's a GF4.
Also, at 0:20, you seem to see that this is the end of the card as you see ports. However, when i compare the visible zone with a GF4, it doesn't look really identical. Maybe it's simply because the the quality is VERY bad, or....
*maybe* that card is a NV30. It's unlikely, but who knows... After all, since it taped out, that seems possible.
At 0:23, you see a guy with a T-Shirt. The logo on it is, err, strange. I doubt it means anything, but since it's kinda in evidence got 1 second, it makes me think it got a meaning. Bad quality even with broadband unables me be sure of what it is...
My best guess is that it's some kind of tree. However, the strange part on the left confuses me. Maybe it's a T-Shirt company logo.
If it is, then i'll look really dumb making all those guesses :)
At 0:24, you can see an employee cubicle, and you see an awful lot of things on the wall. Bad quality unables us to read anything.
This is VERY speculative, but i kinda see some type of paper-created jester in the bottom left side of the most visible wall. And on top of it, some type of thing which tries to attack him.
If i'm not just becoming insane, i'd say the jester is ATI ( Hercules is using the jester for the 9700 box, IIRC ) , too happy of their victory. And the thing attacking it, maybe by surprise, is nVidia.
Another theory is that's it's a snake ( ATI ), trying to poison nVidia, but they are taken by surprise.
Yeah, i'm insane. :)
Anyway, at 0:25, you can see a computer screen for, oh, about 5ms.
The only thing i can hope is that NV30 image quality will be better than that :P
Only thing visible on that image is that there are two fields on top of it. That would make me guess it's a login & password entry.
If you look VERY closely, you can see a part of the image is darker. This could mean it's actually Windows Desktop and that he's selecting something, and it then asks him for a password.
Another explanation, a lot less logical IMO, is that nVidia *did* implement multiple render targets in the NV30. But now, that would be the strangest hint ever, hehe.
All i can say about 0:28 is: "All those cars ARE insured, right?" - wouldn't want nVidia employees the delay the NV30 even more because their car got stolen, they can't get a new one and are too lazy to walk to their company building :)
Between 0:30 and 0:34, i'd say the idea is very simple.
First, before graphic acceleration cards, everything was like that cartoon ( and, again, there are only *females* in that cartoon... Bad nVidia employees! No more porn at work from now on! ) . Then, the Geforce 1 came and there were LOADS and LOADS of polygons.
And then... came the NV30 revolution, which basically said "Polygons are nice, but what about high-quality shading? Isn't it better?"
The fact it's a "revolution" seems to be made evident by the light moving very rapidly on between the bottom-left & the top-right corners of the image. That would indicate that this is the effect of the NV30 on that wireframe we seen before.
This light is VERY fast, so it ain't easy to see it well.
Which is a very condensed resume of David Kirk's opinion on how more triangles can't increase quality that much anymore, we need more quality, not more quantity.
At 0:35, however, nVidia did a small mistake. For a few milliseconds, if you look at the top of the image, you can see some type of bar. No idea what it is. It could be a lot of things, but i'd say that mostly indicates this isn't real-time rendering but it's what they did using a simulator.
So, if it's a simulator, that likely means the drivers are still buggy :) Or maybe it's just the engineers refused to let the Relations departements touch their precious card *grins*
Also, if you look in the middle, you'll there there IS a mouse.
You'll also that for a few milliseconds, just before the fire effect, there is some type of big target cursor in it.
What i mean by "target cursor" is what you often see in a FPS instead of the mouse.
I'd guess this is used to activate the final corona effect and say where it's supposed to be ( yes, there's a corona effect, but it's only visible by using pause very rapidly between frames )
But wait... If you use the mouse to activate something, it IS realtime... Then what's that bar i talked about earlier? Well, the right side of that bar sounds a LOT like a volume modifier...
As for the left side, maybe a speed modifier?
Finally, at the end of the demo, while you see , you can see something which looks like the sky moving. No idea what that means. Maybe simply to say the clouds regarding the NV30 are getting away and all will soon be revealed?
Anyway, i hope you enjoyed this LONG analysis of the situation. It was fun trying to figure things out, even if it's likely they are incorrect. But what did we discover?
1. nVidia employees are perverts
2. nVidia employees like T-Shirts with odd logos which seem to represent trees but nearly certainly do not.
3. From that really isane jester & creature description of the wall, nVidia thinks the NV30 will be a very bad surprise for ATI.
4. Since it seems the mouse does have an impact on the image,
it's likely the final image ( with the hair moving & stuff ) is realtime, but the bar on top seems to contradict that. And thus, nothing is certain.
5. The chip being shown during the GeForce4 and GPU comment doesn't seem to be a GF4. It could ( but that's unlikely ) be a NV30. It could also be something strange like a NV1. No one knows.
6. nVidia employees got nice cars ( 0:28 )
Of course, we can also speculate on all the type of effects which would mean it's some type of eclipse or something. But other people already speculated such things about the original flash intro, so i won't do it myself.
Uttar
But it isn't by hoping you're gonna find them - and that's why i tried to find suspect things in the video.
So let's make a favor to nVidia and try to guess it all!
Between 0:13-0:15, if you pause the video, you can see black images being put on.
On the right, there seems to be a siren. In the middle, maybe some type of harpy ( there seems to be wings, but i'm not sure ). You can't see the bottom of the harpy and the only clothes she have is to protect her breast.
About the same thing can be said of the siren, beside that you can see her tail ( that's how you call the bottom of a siren, right? If it isn't, sorry. Please correct me, my native language isn't English after all )
I'm NOT being pervert and inventing things. This is really the only image i can see. If anyone got to be called pervert, then it's nVidia, LOL.
Please do not think this justifies the GeSpot rumor. Thank you.
Between 0:17 and 0:21, if you pause the video and put your monitor contrast/brightness to the maximum ( it's really dark by default ) , you can see a GPU ( Or anyway, i'd guess it's a GPU. It could just as well be a CPU or something else )
I've got no idea what type of GPU this is. At the same time, there's the "From the creators of the GeForce4" comment, so i'd guess it's a GF4.
Also, at 0:20, you seem to see that this is the end of the card as you see ports. However, when i compare the visible zone with a GF4, it doesn't look really identical. Maybe it's simply because the the quality is VERY bad, or....
*maybe* that card is a NV30. It's unlikely, but who knows... After all, since it taped out, that seems possible.
At 0:23, you see a guy with a T-Shirt. The logo on it is, err, strange. I doubt it means anything, but since it's kinda in evidence got 1 second, it makes me think it got a meaning. Bad quality even with broadband unables me be sure of what it is...
My best guess is that it's some kind of tree. However, the strange part on the left confuses me. Maybe it's a T-Shirt company logo.
If it is, then i'll look really dumb making all those guesses :)
At 0:24, you can see an employee cubicle, and you see an awful lot of things on the wall. Bad quality unables us to read anything.
This is VERY speculative, but i kinda see some type of paper-created jester in the bottom left side of the most visible wall. And on top of it, some type of thing which tries to attack him.
If i'm not just becoming insane, i'd say the jester is ATI ( Hercules is using the jester for the 9700 box, IIRC ) , too happy of their victory. And the thing attacking it, maybe by surprise, is nVidia.
Another theory is that's it's a snake ( ATI ), trying to poison nVidia, but they are taken by surprise.
Yeah, i'm insane. :)
Anyway, at 0:25, you can see a computer screen for, oh, about 5ms.
The only thing i can hope is that NV30 image quality will be better than that :P
Only thing visible on that image is that there are two fields on top of it. That would make me guess it's a login & password entry.
If you look VERY closely, you can see a part of the image is darker. This could mean it's actually Windows Desktop and that he's selecting something, and it then asks him for a password.
Another explanation, a lot less logical IMO, is that nVidia *did* implement multiple render targets in the NV30. But now, that would be the strangest hint ever, hehe.
All i can say about 0:28 is: "All those cars ARE insured, right?" - wouldn't want nVidia employees the delay the NV30 even more because their car got stolen, they can't get a new one and are too lazy to walk to their company building :)
Between 0:30 and 0:34, i'd say the idea is very simple.
First, before graphic acceleration cards, everything was like that cartoon ( and, again, there are only *females* in that cartoon... Bad nVidia employees! No more porn at work from now on! ) . Then, the Geforce 1 came and there were LOADS and LOADS of polygons.
And then... came the NV30 revolution, which basically said "Polygons are nice, but what about high-quality shading? Isn't it better?"
The fact it's a "revolution" seems to be made evident by the light moving very rapidly on between the bottom-left & the top-right corners of the image. That would indicate that this is the effect of the NV30 on that wireframe we seen before.
This light is VERY fast, so it ain't easy to see it well.
Which is a very condensed resume of David Kirk's opinion on how more triangles can't increase quality that much anymore, we need more quality, not more quantity.
At 0:35, however, nVidia did a small mistake. For a few milliseconds, if you look at the top of the image, you can see some type of bar. No idea what it is. It could be a lot of things, but i'd say that mostly indicates this isn't real-time rendering but it's what they did using a simulator.
So, if it's a simulator, that likely means the drivers are still buggy :) Or maybe it's just the engineers refused to let the Relations departements touch their precious card *grins*
Also, if you look in the middle, you'll there there IS a mouse.
You'll also that for a few milliseconds, just before the fire effect, there is some type of big target cursor in it.
What i mean by "target cursor" is what you often see in a FPS instead of the mouse.
I'd guess this is used to activate the final corona effect and say where it's supposed to be ( yes, there's a corona effect, but it's only visible by using pause very rapidly between frames )
But wait... If you use the mouse to activate something, it IS realtime... Then what's that bar i talked about earlier? Well, the right side of that bar sounds a LOT like a volume modifier...
As for the left side, maybe a speed modifier?
Finally, at the end of the demo, while you see , you can see something which looks like the sky moving. No idea what that means. Maybe simply to say the clouds regarding the NV30 are getting away and all will soon be revealed?
Anyway, i hope you enjoyed this LONG analysis of the situation. It was fun trying to figure things out, even if it's likely they are incorrect. But what did we discover?
1. nVidia employees are perverts
2. nVidia employees like T-Shirts with odd logos which seem to represent trees but nearly certainly do not.
3. From that really isane jester & creature description of the wall, nVidia thinks the NV30 will be a very bad surprise for ATI.
4. Since it seems the mouse does have an impact on the image,
it's likely the final image ( with the hair moving & stuff ) is realtime, but the bar on top seems to contradict that. And thus, nothing is certain.
5. The chip being shown during the GeForce4 and GPU comment doesn't seem to be a GF4. It could ( but that's unlikely ) be a NV30. It could also be something strange like a NV1. No one knows.
6. nVidia employees got nice cars ( 0:28 )
Of course, we can also speculate on all the type of effects which would mean it's some type of eclipse or something. But other people already speculated such things about the original flash intro, so i won't do it myself.
Uttar