A Peek At the Origin of PS3's New Visualizer

Folks at the Gamasutra network had a quick sitdown with the Q-Games team, the people behind the PlayStation 3's new Gaia music visualizer. They discuss the origins of the project, as well as some possible plans for the future. "McLaren explains: 'This representation of the earth is a 3D model with some shaders and SPU trickery going on. We tried to accurately model the earth's atmosphere and have all the correct highlights on the oceans, etc. The texture data is sourced from the NASA Blue Marble project.'"

Re:Peak/Peek/Pique

[edittard]

Pique = a state of annoyance, or to torment/irritate someone.

He was piqued by yet another case of semi-literate, lemur-brained oafs posting lame poppycock to slashdot..

Re:at least!

[lluBdeR]

Yes, I was going to pay the ridiculous price for a Playstation 3, but since it didn't have a nifty visualization while it plays music (how often do people do this with their console?) I bought a Wii instead.

Couldn't you just save yourself a few hundred dollars and download a Winamp visualization?

Re:Oh cool!

[Anonymous Coward]

"I as a consumer fear the day they actually manage to get one of their "special" formats accepted as any kind of standard. "

You mean like... Compact Disc? Damn Sony (and their collaborators) and their damned proprietary formats.