Cool Cell demo

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http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24203

Toshiba brought 2 demos for this Cell devkit, well-known 48 MPEG2 streams playback and the new "Digital Kagami Type F" (digital mirror type F) demo. This new image-based rendering demo converts user's face into polygons and applies makeup to it by texture-mapping, template-matching and motion prediction by matrix calculation, and makes it into 720x480@30fps in realtime, on a half-mirror. Here's a news movie including this demo, ring-shaped bone-conduction phone, bicycle robot, SED, HD-DVD, and Blu-ray.
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Link to the video - http://www.bcast.co.jp/cgi-bin/yaho...4-00000273-fnn-bus_all-movie-001&media=wm300k

Impressive stuff. :)

If you can't stream it, try downloading it using this program - http://sdp.ppona.com/
Copy and paste the link into SDP and download it instead.
 
That mirror was tight shiznit, I don't see how it could be useful though.
 
Wow. Now that is some cool tech.

And as far as usefulness, what about movies or TV or gaming--suddenly seeing a rendering of yourself ingame donning armor and besting foes doesn't seem so far-fetched. Wicked stuff really. Thanks for the vid!
 
Here is an other cool technology demo.

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23239

This technology is called 'Motion Portrait' and developed by Sony-Kihara Research Center that designed Graphics Synthesizer for PS2. It generates realtime (30fps) 3D facial animation from a single 2D picture, and is possible on an ordinary PC (you don't have to have a massive render farm). As you see in the movie, you can add facial animation to anything including pineapples and anime characters. The researcher says in the movie its application to games is interesting, for example animating your face or an anime character face in a game. I think with CELL it's almost inevitable to see it in action in PS3 games.
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The video - http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/wbs/2005/08/26/movie/tt.ram (You need Realplayer)

Some really impressive stuff!
 
Geez, I cannot wait for these programs to be used for games! I hope the Cell and its devs really take advantage of this stuff. SO much cooler than the eye-toy or whatever :).
 
Image-Based Rendering will be used for HL3, if graphic cards would have been more advanced when HL2 was out it would of been out for HL2.
 
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