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Remedy was started by Demoscene hackers, including a bunch of Future Crew folks. You can draw a pretty clean line from the incredible Second Reality demo[1] in

Remedy was started by Demoscene hackers, including a bunch of Future Crew folks. You can draw a pretty clean line from the incredible Second Reality demo[1] in 1993 to Alan Wake 2 thirty years later. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw17c70uJes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw17c70uJes

pixelpoet 3y ago
Not to mention crucial middleware like Umbra visibility, the development of Nvidia's RTX, an AI revolution or two, ... As I've commented before on HN, honestly I could write a small book about these Finnish demoscene gods.
- pjbeam 3y ago
  If you do please advertise it on HN. I'll buy a copy.
- dharma1 3y ago
  you should!
- qiine 3y ago
  > development of Nvidia's RTX like convincing Nvidia that dedicating silicon to RT calc was worth it, or writing part of the acceleration structures they use now ?
  - pixelpoet 3y ago
    Some key publications, already quite old: https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/pubs/2009-08_Understanding-the-Efficiency/aila2009hpg_paper.pdf https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/pubs/2009-08... https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/pubs/2012-06_Maximizing-Parallelism-in/karras2012hpg_paper.pdf https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/pubs/2012-06... https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/pubs/2013-07_Megakernels-Considered-Harmful/laine2013hpg_paper.pdf https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/pubs/2013-07...
    - qiine 3y ago
      Nice so they did both hardware and software works, incredible.
      - pixelpoet 3y ago
        The original modern tile-based rasterisation architecture is from Bitboys (also Finnish ex-demoscene), via fabled vapourware Glaze3D, which eventually made its way to AMD and Nvidia.