A Brief History of 3D
August 23rd, 2010 | By: Bee Tee Dee
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You're gonna be seeing a lot of that Jan Van Eyck tag in future postings!
Jan Van Eyck FTW
Loved the anthropomorphization of the Unwinnable Vulture. But I think any mockery of 3D gaming is incomplete without some crap being flung in the general direction of Battle Arena Toshinden for the PlayStation. Who needs proper collision detection in a fighting game, anyway?
Jan Van Eyck FTW
Dire Straits are very over looked when it comes to 3D rendering.
I always wondered why all the kids I knew who had Virtual Boy "moved to Canada."
@Ian: You say that like you knew more than one.
@Don What, you don't remember the mass Canadian Exodus of 1995?
Dire Straits invented Polygon 3D? awesome
[...] was pretty simple to learn. A tech demo for the system, Pilotwings showed off the much ballyhooed Mode 7 graphics engine that Nintendo was so proud of. Essentially a scaling effect that could recreate spiraling downward [...]