NVidia Fermi Sample Renders a Hoax

Thanks to “red” for pointing out that at least two of the purported real-time Fermi renders were misrepresented, and actually part of a trailer created for the Playgrounds Festival.

Together with animation studio Onesize we made a kickass trailer for the Playgrounds Festival (festival for digital audiovisual art).

In terms of technique, Onesize wanted to have more control over the slow motion in post production, still be be able to decide camera angles and motion. To do this we used the camera mapping technique in 3D combined with photograpy. So everything you see is photography and 3D, no filming was done whatsoever.

Photography was done by our director Jasper Faber (revolver.nl/jasper), directing and post by Onesize (onesize.nl). Sound/music by Studio Takt.

See the full trailer after the break.  As for the third picture (of the blue triangle), it hasn’t been located elsewhere yet (to my knowledge, anyway).  It could be legitimate, but with the other two being a hoax, odds aren’t good.

via Playground Festival Trailer on Vimeo.

Playground Festival Trailer from Revolver on Vimeo.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .

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