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.)
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.)
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Date: 2009-12-14 04:28 am (UTC)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.)