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http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/12/12/204241/vector-vengeance-british-claim-they-can-kill-the-pixel-within-five-years

So yeah, everything will be different. This came as quite a shock to me. What to do without our beloved pixels? And to think we only have five more years,.

*reads topic* WOW!

*reads actual link* New video codec. Ffs, what a waste of time.

But you need pixels to render lollygons. Or are they reinventing Vectrex again? :)

What PS on Ice said.

optimus: they've invented a new video codec that stores the video as vectors instead of pixels. They're going to show it to the world, with an amazing video of girls dancing to rave music, it's totally state of the art.

@psonice: lol

@psonice: what optimus said, i loled

As long as there's Atari, there'll be pixels too

> it's totally state of the art
Simply great :-) And I am sure with some additional effort they will even be able to let the vectors look square!

Vectors are the future. Current games use pixels, so it looks pixelated, not realistic. But with vector graphics, you got UNLIMITED DETAILS ! (Mandelbrot wakes up from the dead and says "LOL")

It's by the British. That can't be taken seriously.

"if you've ever edited or drawn an image on your computer, you know that there are two primary ways of storing image data: As a bitmap, or as vectors."

yes, sure... but what about the final rendered data.

CURRENT GAMES USE 3D-VECTORS!!!
RAYTRACING IS THE FUTURE!

OpenVG is the future :---------D

maybe with holographic 3d displays the pixel will finally die (or evolve into a voxel)?

Every time you announce CG related bullshit, God kills a pixel of your screen.

ah so thats why they are gone in 5 years

arg, slashdot :/

Who said "girls dancing to rave music"? :D

"The pixel dies in five years"

"Polygons are dead"

"Raytracing is the future"

anyone can recall more recent similar bullshit claims?

iq: "the scene is dead"

"AMIGA!"

"mp3 music will kill demos because anyone can make a sound that will sound good"

"Windows demos will always suck because the OS will take all the processing power"

"If it's not written in assembler, it's not a demo"

The Death of Pixels.

& what wysiwtf said about slashdot...

Every cube begins with a pixel.

No pixels == no cubes == no demoscene.

RIP

Salinga: wtf? 6 faces, 8 vertices, 12 edges, that can perfectly be represented by vectors, so the demoscene is saved. At least we keep the cubes.

Too bad for the glow, though...