Ping makovette: The Beauty of Linux

[theoldwolf]

By the dessicated skull of Mogg's grandfather...

Processor?

Excuse me, I need to go change now.

Comments

[secoh.livejournal.com]

that's awesome!! How do I get Ubuntu to do that.....

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

This is getting ridiculous: I was just randomly thinking about that starting music in the last hour. (It's the underwater theme from Donkey Kong Country.)

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

Looks awesome but impractical. We do enough multitasking as it is.

[alaskawolf.livejournal.com]

that was pretty stunning :)

[dhlawrence.livejournal.com]

I want it!

[stevenroy.livejournal.com]

Looks to me like it's pretty much the video card doing all the 3d work, which is mostly just fairly basic texture-mapping; the UI is just designed to use those 3d capabilities in an unusually clever way. It's certainly an awesome trick, isn't it?

Judging by the flickering horizontal lines, though, I think the video card is struggling a bit to keep up with all that. (Actually, my own limited experience with Linux suggests very poor support, if any, for 3d acceleration. Then again, that was a few years ago. Seems they've got it mostly working now.)