Euclideon & Unlimited Detail - Bruce Dell Interview by John Gatt

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/08/10/euclideon_unlimited_detail_bruce_de....

[H]ard|OCP is proud to present this full feature video, behind the scenes interview with Bruce Dell, the founder and CEO of Euclideon and the original creator Unlimited Detail technology.

John Gatt interview's Bruce Dell for a full look into the past, present and future of Euclideon and the Unlimited Detail technology.

The small company of only 9 people in Brisbane Australia, were in the news again in early August 2011 after having released a demo video to give their fans a one year update. This video received almost 2 million hits in the first 4 days.

Euclideon are a very secretive bunch who normally decline interviews, but the public outcry for them to respond to their critics has been so great that they kindly agreed to this exclusive interview, letting [H]ard|OCP in before, they say, they must get back to work and disappear again until they have a final product.

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[gamingfaces]

@TheHomicidalEagle All I know is it uses a search algorithm for all data, We all will find out more when Bruce pops his head up next time.

[TheHomicidalEagle]

How can you compress a piece of data that's in its smallest state? Data has a minimum of 0 or 1.... so 800 atoms would minimum be 100 bytes.... so 8 billion atoms would be 100MB of ram but that is just raw data duno how many atoms are run at once in that demo, but a 1x1km area is 64 billion atoms which is 8GB of data right there.... by using the 64 atoms p/ sqr mm If how they say this coding works. I am all for this tech, but i dont understand how it can work logically

[gamingfaces]

@TheHomicidalEagle its 1 atom for every pixel on the screen only... as it says in the video.

[Slartibartable]

I am not Australian but does this guy sound as bad to native Australians as he does to everyone else? His accent and inflections are really annoying.

[gamingfaces]

@Slartibartable its a South Africa/Australian accent that's what throws people off. 

[Sexalize]

CEO's a little.... eccentric.

[Shouou]

@gamingfaces Good job on that interview then, very interesting stuff

[ReddBeest]

At 35:35 you can actually see a flat ground :O

[Guding12]

@TheHomicidalEagle I guess they use nanobytes (Yeah, I know it doesn't exist)

[Smashsmashman]

I think i have and idea on how it works, look at it this way data is written on the screen line by line pixel by pixel, so all the detail is measured in each pixel and a normal ipeg picture of lets say 1080p has 2mp how big can that 1 frame be at a instant maybe 1mB or more per frame and they may have a system set up to calculate the need pixel at each instant example a frame and average 15-30 frames is need for a good video.

conclusion what you see is what you get:)

[TorraKex]

@Zoza15 I never said it wasn't unlimited voxels, but storing voxeldata on an atomic level would be redundant especially in games, hell, even for medical use that would be redundant. Not to mention that they haven't solved any other problems with the voxel technology such as dynamic lighting, particle effects, animation etc. Which is why we almost exclusively use voxels as static objects in games today (complex terrain for example, overhanging cliffs, tunnels and so on).

[Zoza15]

@TorraKex You need to listen of what he says, Its Voxels in unlimited quanitities using the search algorythm..

[hombacom]

Why is the interviewer not more critical on the ugly repetion, how much storage you need for hiresolution or the lack of any effects? No real answers. It's so childish explanation with the cookies, like the viewers are stupid.

[TechGalaxyMC]

@andrewcarmock it is still not finsihed. should be finished soon

[thijsphilosopher]

@andrewcarmock Because it's not finished yet...

Damn i like this company! Euclideon, keep doing what you're doing :)

[thijsphilosopher]

@artdragondream capitalism....money first, creativity last

[acf2802]

I like how this video yet again doesn't clarify or back up anything. Who would take the word of some random CEO nobody has ever heard of, regarding graphics technology, over the word of John Carmack? I'm pretty sure Euclideon WILL disappear again, as soon as they get their money.