Topic: Hello, I'm Nick from Coventry (Read 3629 times)

nickashley · « **on:** July 30, 2010, 07:56:36 AM »

Hi, I'm new to the forum and I want to introduce myself. I'm nick and I live in the UK in a town called Coventry. I am interested in all kinds of hardware and softwear projects along with anything that is cool and interesting, for example plasma speakers

I been experimenting with ray tracing recently and I have seen a lot of people linking ps3's together to try and achieve real time ray taceing, they have had varying levels of success but I have yet to see a 60 frame per second game running on ray tracing.

For those of you who know a little about the subject will know that the calculations involved are not trivial and to render a scene using ray tracing with all the bells and whistles can take hours for a single frame.

I was thinking last night, why not use a single PIC micro controler for each ray processing the whole scene in parallele. I agree it will take a lot of pics for example in a 300X200 image you would need 60000 single PICS and shared memory may be a problem (although you could use some clever bus techniques).

I would be interested to know what everyone thinks, am I on to somthing or am I talking crap lol

nickashley · « **Reply #1 on:** July 30, 2010, 08:04:51 AM »

I'm more into my suide or moleskin myself, I didnt know you could get banana skittles lol

Novice · « **Reply #2 on:** July 30, 2010, 08:07:50 AM »

Yeah, we're one of the only groups it is offered to.

Oh, and hello new person. And I have no idea what you're talking about in your intro post. The only thing I understand is PS3.

nickashley · « **Reply #3 on:** July 30, 2010, 08:15:35 AM »

ohhh, I will do it rite away. I just get my credit card ..... I was assuming that your picture refered to skittle like tablets that help you have a good time on a friday night

Probie · « **Reply #4 on:** July 30, 2010, 08:25:32 AM »

I went to coventry once.

nickashley · « **Reply #5 on:** July 30, 2010, 08:29:13 AM »

Cool, did you enjoy your stay. A lot of people say it a bad place but I love it here

Probie · « **Reply #6 on:** July 30, 2010, 08:32:07 AM »

I didn't get to see a lot of it. It was for an interview... requirements analyst. They wanted me to not program.. of all things!

nickashley · « **Reply #7 on:** July 30, 2010, 08:50:35 AM »

Are you a coder then probie, I always have prefered coding to the systems/requirements analyst stuff. In my experience it dont seem like you doing anything, I guess I'm a bit too much hands on for the job. It a shame you didnt get the job you would have liked it here, the people here are very "direct" about the way they feel so nothing is hidden it very easy to make friends and get on here. Plus an added bonus is you can get anything you need within a few mins so the weekends are great.

Probie · « **Reply #8 on:** July 30, 2010, 09:03:05 AM »

I did get the job, I just didn't take it. It was falsly advertised to me.

I'm a graphics programmer, I would for a virtual reality compnay.

edit : work not would.

Probie · « **Reply #9 on:** July 30, 2010, 09:10:30 AM »

the guy would meet any offer I got from here, but i don't know anyone in Coventry and the job would have been very dull.

nickashley · « **Reply #10 on:** July 30, 2010, 09:15:26 AM »

I would imagine it would be a bit dull, do you do anything with ray tracing (it my new hobby) and you know somone in Coventry now

bananaskittles: what kind of stuff do you work as?

Probie · « **Reply #11 on:** July 30, 2010, 09:22:03 AM »

nah, not til august is our next holiday.

no ray tracing, we can get good enough lighting using basic ambient and specular lighiting and some shaders, which are much faster.

nickashley · « **Reply #12 on:** July 30, 2010, 09:25:22 AM »

Not that I know of, I guess I should find out so I dont turn up for work lol. Well if you working there you gettin some money so you ok

I spent 6 months without a job and it was hell. In one week my girlfriend of four years broke up with me, I rented a house off her mother so she asked me to leave and then got a call saying I was being made redundent. So I lst my girl friend, my house and my job in one week, oh yea in that week I wrecked my car and broke my hand aswell lol. I lived on a friends living room floor on a matress for 6 months until I got myself sorted out. That kind of experience makes you appriciate what you got, if your living then it all good

nickashley · « **Reply #13 on:** July 30, 2010, 09:26:56 AM »

Ray tracing is not the most efficent way of rendering but can produce stunning results. So I guess you work with polygon rendering then, I did a bit of that using directx and opengl but never really got the hang of it. Have you heard of o3d

nickashley · « **Reply #14 on:** July 30, 2010, 09:33:52 AM »

Yea, I dont allow any of my life to be connected to any girlfriends anymore. Lesson learned in a big way, where are you from (just country / state, im not asking for an address or anything)

ivan · « **Reply #15 on:** July 30, 2010, 09:47:00 AM »

Are you named after Nick Cotton and his son, poor dead Ashley?

nickashley · « **Reply #16 on:** July 30, 2010, 09:47:42 AM »

If I am I didnt know it because I dont know who they were

It nice to meet you ivan

ivan · « **Reply #17 on:** July 30, 2010, 11:44:01 AM »

Nice to meet you, too.

And now, the Cottons:

Nick.

Poor dead Ashley.

Dot.

The very dead and good riddance to him Charlie.

Ok, this is where you post "lol I don't watch telly what is EastEnders?"

nickashley · « **Reply #18 on:** July 30, 2010, 12:34:25 PM »

I do watch telly, but as you say not eastenders

So is this your forum and who is the star trek guy nobody seems to like?

ivan · « **Reply #19 on:** July 30, 2010, 12:54:59 PM »

No, this is not my forum. You just happened to catch me in a loud and obnoxious mood. Normally I'm overshadowed by the real stars of the forum, as you will soon see.

And the Star Trek guy won't last. He has a pathetically short attention span.

xolik · « **Reply #20 on:** July 30, 2010, 01:02:26 PM »

Quote from: ivan on July 30, 2010, 12:54:59 PM

No, this is not my forum. You just happened to catch me in a loud and obnoxious mood. Normally I'm overshadowed by the real stars of the forum, as you will soon see.

And the Star Trek guy won't last. He has a pathetically short attention span.

It's true, he does.

Hi, Nick! I'm Xolik. Ivan is only in a 'loud and obnoxious' mood on days that end with a 'y'.

xolik · « **Reply #21 on:** July 30, 2010, 01:05:44 PM »

Quote from: bananaskittles on July 30, 2010, 01:04:42 PM

That's why he's so nice during Christmas.

That's only because he's happy he more coal for the furnace.

Rizzy · « **Reply #22 on:** July 30, 2010, 01:54:36 PM »

Quote from: bananaskittles on July 30, 2010, 09:09:35 AM

Did the job pay well? I'd do anything for money... ANYTHING.

would you snort a pound of cocaine?

Don't ask, just go with it.

Also, hi new guy!

dan1el · « **Reply #23 on:** August 01, 2010, 10:14:54 AM »

Hey Nick, i am new to this forum too.

I have been reading about Ray Tracing but i don't know that much about him at all. From what i read, if he worked, he would be amazing! Have you tried using a single PC ? I'd be interested to know how you get on with that!

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