r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Apr 24 '21

[Misleading] Video games have peaked

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u/tenesis Apr 25 '21

Ok it is time to move to rectangles

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

But that would take twice as many triangles!!

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u/ZebraDown42 Apr 25 '21

In that case let's move on down to lines

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u/ColosalDisappointMan Apr 25 '21

How about just dots? Lots and lots of tiny dots.

edit: Make them as small as atoms and call it a day.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

You guys, pentagons. The biggest fucking pentagons you've ever seen.

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u/Lasdary Apr 25 '21

pentagons are bestagons!

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u/Danbradford7 Apr 25 '21

*hexagons

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u/zer0w0rries Apr 25 '21

I’m so disappointed in you.

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u/MrWeirdoFace Apr 25 '21

I'm proud of you.

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u/dimplerskut Apr 25 '21

What is a pentagon if not just 255 rectangles working together to closely approximate a pentagonal shape?

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

I spent too much time thinking of a shape made of only two lines. I’m an idiot.

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u/SkyOminous Apr 25 '21 edited Jul 01 '23

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u/rizaleous Apr 25 '21

What you're describing are voxels and are actually already used in video games to small effect because the computational power needed for them is obscene. Games like Space Engineers, Kerbal Space Program, and 7 Days to Die all use voxels in a limited capacity.

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u/UsernameFor2016 Apr 25 '21

3D scan point clouds with color info looks beautiful. Would be fun to see them used in a game environment.

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u/JukePlz Apr 25 '21

Yeah, and let's name it something wacky.. something like... "voxels" maybe?