{"id":78,"date":"2002-01-22T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-22T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=78"},"modified":"2007-12-30T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T06:26:10","slug":"increasing-graphics-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Increasing graphics performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theharrowgroup.com\/articles\/20020121\/20020121.htm#_Toc535993819\">blurb below<\/a> is from the 21 Jan 2002 issue of The Harrow Technology Report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fifteen years ago, when Pixar introduced its then-amazing computer-generated video titled \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixar.com\/theater\/shorts\/ljr\/short_320.html\">Luxo Jr.<\/a>\", it required 75 hours of Cray supercomputer time to render <strong>each second<\/strong> of photo realistic animated video.  Today's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/view.asp?PAGE=geforce3\">GeForce 3<\/a> chip in many PCs can now render similar video in <strong>real time<\/strong>!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With computer performance increasing exponentially, it's easy to lose track of how far we've come. I remember being blown away by Luxo Jr. when it was first released, but now it's no big deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blurb below is from the 21 Jan 2002 issue of The Harrow Technology Report: Fifteen years ago, when Pixar introduced its then-amazing computer-generated video titled \"Luxo Jr.\", it required 75 hours of Cray supercomputer time to render each second of photo realistic animated video. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=78\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}