Inside ATI's Real-Time 3D Graphics Demos

David Gosselin '89 & Daniel Ginsburg '98
ATI Research

April 8, 2005
11 a.m. - 12 noon
Fuller Labs 320

Abstract

Today's 3D graphics hardware is becoming increasingly more powerful. This talk will start with an overview of current ATI hardware architecture and the features used in creating the Radeon X800 and X850 demos. The majority of the talk will focus on breaking down a few of these demos in some detail and highlighting the more interesting shader techniques.

Biography of David Gosselin

Dave Gosselin is currently the lead for the demo team in the 3D Application Research Group at ATI Research, where he has been working on the launch demos for the past few generations of ATI cards. In addition to the demos he also wrote the NormalMapper tool for generating bump/normal maps from high resolution models. He has published articles in ShaderX, Shader X3 and Game Programming Gems 3 and spoken at Meltdown 2003, GDCE 2003, and GDC2004. Previously he worked at several companies including Oracle, Spacetec IMC, Xyplex, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory on varied projects from low level networking and web technologies to image processing and 3D input devices. Dave graduated with a MS in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Biography of Daniel Ginsburg

Dan Ginsburg is currently a Senior Software Engineer on the demo team in the 3D Application Research Group at ATI Research, where he works on the launch demos for ATI cards. Prior to joining the 3DARG, Dan worked on the OpenGL driver team for over four years, focusing most of his efforts on implementing new extensions. He has worked on features for the Rage128 and Radeon-series OpenGL drivers including cubemaps, 3-D textures, full-scene anti-aliasing, fragment shaders, and GLSL. He has also participated in specifying several OpenGL extensions that have been approved by the Architecture Review Board (ARB). Prior to joining ATI, Dan worked for n-Space, Inc., an Orlando-based game development company. Dan graduated with a BS in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and is currently pursuing an MBA part-time at Bentley College.

Host

Michael A. Gennert
Refreshments will be served.

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