Ray, of Light wrote:

I need clarification wrote:

Best Lecture: Tie between Jason Rubin of Naughty Dog whose "Next Generation Graphics: Who Cares?" speech both terrified and inspired all of us, the

Carmack has made comments to this effect before:

John's hunch is that eventually 3D hardware will be based on some kind of multiresolution representation, where the world is kept in a data structure that fundamentally supports rendering it in near-constant time from any viewpoint.
Voxels are one example of such a structure. John mentioned that he actually wrote a voxel renderer and converted an entire Quake 2 level to use it. It wound up being about 3 gigabytes of data! But he said that that's not actually that far off from today's [1998 --ed.] hardware capacity

Ray, of Light wrote:

INC wrote:

the "martini" I was served in the lobby of the Fairmont on the last night of the conference (suffice to say it was warm, weak, and served in a plastic Gamespy cup).

Most hotels, these days, have little cookie-sheet sized window openings. FSJ is the only hotel I've visited in the last 10 years with windows you could open and throw yourself out of.

Ray, of Light wrote:

Most Gratifying Moment of GDC: A table full of some of the best programmers in the business laughing their heads off when I mentioned I'd read a post on a message board suggesting John Carmack was a "competent implementor."

This got separated from its pic, somehow.

Ray!