Total bullshit or the Messiah of future graphics?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ATtrImCx4

If it's true what they say it's kind of a breakthrough...

..... holy shit. o_o

how many dots a model have to have?
e.g. if you render a tree from distance its about 500 dots (rendered pixles) but if you zoom to a leaf fullscreen (1600x1400) only this leaf must have ~2.2Mpix!
(and then zoom to more detail )

The challenge of dot-cloud-models is not the select the visible dots but to handle the dots in memory ("unlimited amount of data..." [vpos 7:02])

(for me it's nonsens [the way it is showed])

ps: cool mozart music!
pps: nothing is impossible - so let's stay tuned

There also is another video on their homepage:
http://unlimiteddetailtechnology.com/home.html

Unfortunatey it doesn't tell THAT much more...

quite interesting and sounds actually possible.

interesting.... a good way to waste ram, but in a few years why not?

There's a lot of duplication -- even in their forest scenes they use the same tree over and over. I suspect this is because of the memory cost of each object.

I also suspect it doesn't handle transparency so well. That's really just a hunch based on some things that have been said.

Jibb

It must have downsides, but nevertheless a combination with polygons may be a perfect match. Certain things are not easy to make with polygons but are with this tech, and so is the other way around.

The ideal game editor conveniently gives a list of render methods to apply on your objects . If you want unlimited dots for grave detail, then you can't have transparency. But you can add transparent polygons to the parts that should be transparent, and leave a gap in the unlimited dots...

yeah, i dont think it was expressly said, but i'd assume that its similar to the same issues deffered rendering has.

Just... awesome.