Image Quality Comparison: Radeon Gallium3D vs. Catalyst

[SavageX]

Actuall I think fglrx renders this correctly, and Mesa has a problem with the bloom.

The purple glow (bloom) should be where the model is bright, but it seems that the bloom texture is rendered a bit too low, showing up, e.g., on the floor instead of showing up on the specular highlight on the leg. Same for the specular highlight on the shoulders, which renders on the belly.

[crazycheese]

JB, nothing personal, this was just a demonstration on how someone would go about trolling the forum. You're not an uncle tom, mainly because it's impossible as we don't have slavery any more. Secondly because IP isn't actual "property". Thirdly, because it makes no sense whatsoever and you're white.... It's complete rubish and I feel bad for writing it, even if it is only to show people how to troll.

Property is property; and you are somewhere correct about JB, at least I stongly believe it is his assigned job, rather than personal position.

[crazycheese]

Mesa absolutely is NOT the reference implementation (@Qaridium: that's spelled with an f, not a v).
It's a third-party implementation of a standard, which isn't even permitted to refer to the standard in its name.
It has passed many conformance tests using the software renderer, but then, so have the NVidia & AMD/ATI blobs--and thase have passed more current ones (or they couldn't advertise OpenGL 4 support)
If you bothered to read the history under doc/, you'd know this.

There is a free "Sample Implementation" for OpenGL, but it wasn't updated past GL1.4.

OpenGL 3 is only available on radeon with "8.0"-git (="master" head, not the mesa 8.0 branch), FWIW.

If you find a place where mesa is non-reference, feel free to submit bug :P

[Ibidem]

Mesa absolutely is NOT the reference implementation (@Qaridium: that's spelled with an f, not a v).
It's a third-party implementation of a standard, which isn't even permitted to refer to the standard in its name.
It has passed many conformance tests using the software renderer, but then, so have the NVidia & AMD/ATI blobs--and thase have passed more current ones (or they couldn't advertise OpenGL 4 support)
If you bothered to read the history under doc/, you'd know this.

There is a free "Sample Implementation" for OpenGL, but it wasn't updated past GL1.4.

OpenGL 3 is only available on radeon with "8.0"-git (="master" head, not the mesa 8.0 branch), FWIW.

[smitty3268]

It's like ray-eee-ayne....... On your wedding day...... If you're a meteorologist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY_amJ0YZrM

[russofris]

Oh, and no. The direct opposite of the truth is called a "lie". Irony is something else.

It's like ray-eee-ayne....... On your wedding day...... If you're a meteorologist.

[smitty3268]

just a knowledge update for you: the basic ironic is the direct opposite of the truth.

Oh, and no. The direct opposite of the truth is called a "lie". Irony is something else.

[not.sure]

Meh. When I saw the number of posts I was hoping for some interesting insights/discussions about image quality from people who know something about this.

[russofris]

For those of you that have missed it, Qar is a pro troll. If I ran a site like this, I would hire one or two of them to pad the forum for additional click revenue.

Being a pro troll is easy. You simply say something completely intangible and crazy. Here's an example:

"While John Bridgman is an open source developer, his defence of the closed source catalyst binaries makes him an Uncle-Tom in the eyes of many FOSS advocates"

It's untrue, ambiguous, personal, almost looks like it makes sense, and I could write page after page of nonsense defending it. Ultimately, it is meaningless and exists only to create a post-storm of bullshit melodrama. I created a "them" and an "us" to devide participants into two groups, mixed in a racial metaphor to get one of the groups mad, and did it all in a single sentence that pretends to make sense. The only downfall is that the spelling and grammer (while not totally correct) is way too good, so I cannot play the "you misunderstood me" card later in an effort to keep the argument going.

JB, nothing personal, this was just a demonstration on how someone would go about trolling the forum. You're not an uncle tom, mainly because it's impossible as we don't have slavery any more. Secondly because IP isn't actual "property". Thirdly, because it makes no sense whatsoever and you're white.... It's complete rubish and I feel bad for writing it, even if it is only to show people how to troll.

[ninez]

just a knowledge update for you: the basic ironic is the direct opposite of the truth.
but you think ironic do have a magic secret point of joke.
no in fact ironic is not a secret point of joke.

that doesn't even make sense, dude. LOL.... you should do us all a favor and just cut and paste web-dictionary definitions, as your definitions seem like they are being pounded out, on a keyboard by a retarded drunken monkey impersonating a caveman, but only after receiving severe permanent brain-damage. LOL. SERIOUSLY!

Irony:

the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. example: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.

Ironic:

Happening in the opposite way to what is expected, and typically causing wry amusement because of this... (let's compare)

the basic ironic is the direct opposite of the truth

WTF?! ....retarded monkey talk. ~ ironic is an adjective and not a noun. therefore, your sentence makes absolutely NO sense. furthermore, your definition doesn't even explain what irony is.

but you think ironic do have a magic secret point of joke

...more incoherent retarded drunk monkey talk.

here, let me try;

Me no understood. where does 'magic secret point of joke' meant? Why did you mean by there?!? duh duh duh - did i do it right???

just for the record people have different taste of what is a joke.

i for example i LOLz over loud about your "Serious" response and this prove : yes my joke work! LOL!..

nah, from an outside perspective - you seem like an Imbosil.

and i think MESA is the reference implementations of the Khronos group

yup, retarded for sure.