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Ask HN: What still remains to be solved in terms of Graphics Programming?

• lutusp 12y ago
  > What still remains to be solved in terms of Graphics Programming? That's not a particularly useful question, because the direction of graphics programming is steered more by improvements in hardware than software. For example, I can remember writing and publishing a game for a programmable calculator, at a time when a "display" was a sheet of graph paper: http://www.arachnoid.com/programmable_calculators/index.html#HP_25 http://www.arachnoid.com/programmable_calculators/index.html... My point is that I've personally witnessed huge changes in what people regard as cutting edge computer graphics, and most of the change is driven by hardware improvements -- GPUs, faster and cheaper computer power, display technology. So to answer your question, I would advise that you pay attention to the hardware responsible for processing and displaying the images.
• techdog 12y ago
  Rapid interconversion between vector and bitmap formats remains hard. Rapid fractal compression remains hard. Some of Barnsley's techniques should be off patent now, or soon.
  • lutusp 12y ago
    > Rapid interconversion between vector and bitmap formats remains hard. More important, if you abandon the vector form in favor of a bitmap, there's no going back -- information is irretrievably lost.