Ping Pong & Traps [Original XBOX unveiling Tech Demo]

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Suppose you have one thousand mousetraps with ping-pong balls placed on each one. Now add another ball. The first trap is hit causing a rather large reaction involving all of the other traps. Balls are falling and traps are going off in this demo.

This last demo was the one that really turned our heads. Those of you who have been scared by this experience in physic'c class are already familiar with the concept. Basically you take a room whose floor is covered with mousetraps. Each mousetrap has a ping pong ball on top of it. Seamus threw another ping pong ball into the room, setting off a chain reaction that sent all of the ping pong balls and the mouse traps flying into the air. The effect was spectacular. Seamus even slowed down the action and showed us the motion blur on each of the objects. We were simply amazed by all of the animation that was happening on-screen.

http://xbox.ign.com/articles/076/076378p1.html

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[kliksf]

Man, if you could back in time to the early fifties and show physics and computer engineers this video and say yeah. by 2010 tens of millions of homes with have devices capable doing physics-related simulations like this and they would be amazed and filled with hope and wonder and then that's when you show them the video of the kid yelling at his mom about bringing him a chocolate milk while he's playing rainbow six online and you tell them this what people are using them for.

[Tombes123456]

fag

[pet0023]

@craiigblast fag that video sucked

[stuckeykentucky]

lol dude you are so right. me 20 minutes ago, "mom bring me chocolate milk!" and thanks for taking the time to right that . lol

see you!

[calumknight1984]

Thats cos the entire resource of the machine was on that single scene in full gaes the resources of the machine are spread across A.I, Graphics, Animation, and recently physics

[airraideagle]

This demo and the other realtime Xbox tech demos ran on the NV15 GPU (GeForce 2 GTS).

[craiigblast]

/watch?v=KYwP6uvZMh0

[anyninja]

The funny thing is the lighting in that room is still more photo-realistic than anything I've seen in-game yet.

[ImperialElite1]

I to think we thought that was impressive at the time...

Today, it would probably be the size of a football feild, if not larger than that.

[cpuwizard9225]

My physics teacher did this!