Nvidia Human Head Demo

[Mr. Smith]

NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 Ultra demo "Human Head" delivers a startling leap forward in realism for real-time characters. A new sum-of-Guassians formulation of subsurface scattering within a multi-layered skin model coupled with the blazing shading performance of GeForce 8800 Ultra enables rendering of realistic human skin at a level never before seen in real-time.

To evaluate the complex skin shader and HDR lighting, "Human Head" computes 17 offscreen textures every frame totaling over 40 Million pixels, each shaded with lengthy pixel shaders. That's more than 1.2 billion pixels every second! 4096 x 4096 color and normal textures provide photo-realistic detail even at extremely close ranges. All this shading and texture processing requires both a level of shader performance and memory bandwidth unavailable until now thanks to GeForce 8800 Ultra.

The presets at the lower left allow quick access to a variety of lighting rigs and the menu controls allow complete control of light positions. The Shader FX menu allows control of the translucency of the skin (the "waxy" slider) as well as controls for chrome skin (or even a mix of skin and chrome). The number keys "1" through "5" show some of subsurface scattering textures that are computing each frame when evaluating the skin shader. "0" restores normal rendering.

Special thanks to actor Doug Jones (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer) for allowing us to use his likeness to deliver the next level in realistic real-time characters.

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_hu...downloads.html

XS

Someone fancy checking this out? I can't @ work, maybe do a screenie?

[Pyr0]

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl...-8&sa=N&tab=wi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A838dclFr5U

[Rastalovich]

So what ur trying to tell me is that all this time the lead singer of REM was created by nVidia ?

This is where I get confused with the likes of gaming cards (geforce etc) and professional cards (quadro etc). What I`m visaging is that in a studio, actually working on this stuff, u`d want a quadro. In the world, when ur more concerned about filling these objects with textures and lighting, u want a geforce.

Spooky mind u.

[Toxcity]

That is very nice, but would have been better if it was a lady!

But cor blimey! the skin texture is WOW!

[Yeungster]

Thats amazing. Almost making me wonder whether selling my GTX was a good idea afterall

[ali_james]

I just watched the youtube video, waiting for a heart attack as his eyes spring open and some horrible cheesy scream plays. Fortunately it never came

[Bungral]

It really is such high quality... Works fine on the GT