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MojoKid writes "Back in November, 2002, Nvidia announced a line of GPUs it dubbed the GeForce FX. These cards were the first to integrate assets Nvidia had purchased from 3dfx (hence the name). NV claimed that these new cards would usher in the dawn of cinematic computing and the company released the eponymous "Dawn" demo to prove it. Now, ten years later, Nvidia has revisited the classic character and updated her for DirectX 11. The new demo is a rich forest interior with leaf, vine, and tree detail that puts the original to shame. In 2002, it took so much processing power to draw Dawn that her background was an artistic blur designed to imply "forest." What's more striking than this, given that we're comparing the character, is the difference in how she moves. Watch the full Dawn video from 2002, and she still walks and changes positions like a marionette. She's square in Uncanny Valley territory, with animations that are close, but not quite human. In New Dawn, these visual cues are much reduced. Dawn 2.0 moves more like a human and less like a puppet; her gestures and arm motions don't have the same programmed jerkiness."
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