Why video games are made of tiny triangles
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Published 2019-01-10
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Games today are meticulously detailed. They’re mysterious and heartwarming, and colorful and stylized. And that makes them a technical challenge. Though computing power has skyrocketed, gamemakers keep competing to add more detail to their games, pushing the limits of what even the newest technology can compute. Game technology needs to constantly keep up with gamemakers’ creative ambitions.
Triangles are a key part of how these gorgeous, detailed games appear on your screen — the hidden heroes we should all thank as we play. This simple shape helps keep the number of computations needed for each detail as low as possible, allowing the player's computer to process these elaborate games.
Watch the video above to find out how triangles make room for creators to build the beautiful games that exist today.
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CPU'S ARE JUST ROCKS WE TRICKED INTO THINKING
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0:38 "But you never see them." Well someone hasn't played Fallout 76...
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vox: answering questions you never knew you had
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PS5: someone said... triangles?
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Who knew Keira Knightley knows a lot about games?
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Thank you tiny triangles, very cool.
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This should be popular now after the UE5 reveal.
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But this is only half the story. During the development process, everything in the video game is usually made of rectangles. However, at the end of the development, all the rectangles are converted to triangles. This is because it's much easier for game developers to work with rectangles, but it's easier for GPUs to work with triangles.
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Here’s why video games are made from tiny triangles: Lvl 1 : Squares Lvl 100 : Triangles That’s how shapes work
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And that's why NVIDIAs HQ is shaped like a triangle.
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*slaps ps5* This boy can fit in so many triangles!
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Should also be mentioned that they make the models using squares then subdivide it into triangles. It's just way easier to thing spatially when dealing with squares and when you're all set you can just press a button to turn it into triangles.
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How do you do, fellow gamers?
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TL;DR - We formed a pact with the Ancient Fey back in the 1960s and agreed to use their sacred triangular and square geometry in all of our national entertainment media in order to transform America into the world's largest leyline to await the next alignment of the planets in 2024.
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I just watched a video of the Unreal Engine 5 for PS5 and came here to see why video games are made of tiny triangles.
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Minecraft: No, I don't think I will
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3:01 the singular of "vertices" is "vertex"
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0:01 No, that is Arthur Morgan. He died at sunrise, that's why we have AM for morning hours.
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who is seeing this after that traingle video of unreal engine 5 demo😂
