NG
Not sure that render time is an issue for modern VR kit. If you spend enough money you can buy graphics workstations fast (and expensive!) enough to render in real-time, which is a requirement for live VR as the scene has to be rendered at 50 fields per second to match the camera movement/shot size changes (otherwise it is not really worth doing)
Certainly the BBCs VR election graphics (the virtual swingometer) had to be rendered live, to allow the cameras to cut between different shots, and pan around the virtual set live...
noggin
Founding member
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burblebrox on 9:44 am on Feb. 7, 2002
On the face of it, c@t's right, weather presentation is a tad two-dimensional, even with the fly-overs.
The problem I think the forecasters have is that you can try to get too much information into a one or two minute forecast, especially since the UK climate can differ so much in different parts of the country, so while a VR forecast maybe a triumph of presentation, it could actually obscure the message, which is that some people are going to get wet!!!!!
Added to the expense and the sheer amount of time it takes for a computer to render 3-D animations (at the moment about an hour for a 10 second sequence), and the increasing number of bulletins that all channels (especially the 24-hour news/interactive channels) want, there's no wonder the forecasters are quite happy with the devil they know at the moment.
What about reincarnating the Weather Channel?
(Edited by burblebrox at 9:46 am on Feb. 7, 2002)
On the face of it, c@t's right, weather presentation is a tad two-dimensional, even with the fly-overs.
The problem I think the forecasters have is that you can try to get too much information into a one or two minute forecast, especially since the UK climate can differ so much in different parts of the country, so while a VR forecast maybe a triumph of presentation, it could actually obscure the message, which is that some people are going to get wet!!!!!
Added to the expense and the sheer amount of time it takes for a computer to render 3-D animations (at the moment about an hour for a 10 second sequence), and the increasing number of bulletins that all channels (especially the 24-hour news/interactive channels) want, there's no wonder the forecasters are quite happy with the devil they know at the moment.
What about reincarnating the Weather Channel?
(Edited by burblebrox at 9:46 am on Feb. 7, 2002)
Not sure that render time is an issue for modern VR kit. If you spend enough money you can buy graphics workstations fast (and expensive!) enough to render in real-time, which is a requirement for live VR as the scene has to be rendered at 50 fields per second to match the camera movement/shot size changes (otherwise it is not really worth doing)
Certainly the BBCs VR election graphics (the virtual swingometer) had to be rendered live, to allow the cameras to cut between different shots, and pan around the virtual set live...
BE
benjiman
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Brekkie Boy 2001 on 12:10 pm on Feb. 7, 2002
Why not a virtual weather forecaster?
Why not a virtual weather forecaster?
LOL that would be more trouble than it's worth. They'd have to do voice-overs (unless they used an extremely annoying computerised voice) so they'd still need a weather-forecaster to do them!
ED
EDTV
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burblebrox on 2:44 am on Feb. 7, 2002
What about reincarnating the Weather Channel?
What about reincarnating the Weather Channel?
Why doesn't Britain have a 24-hour weather channel? I would think that would be a practical channel to have!
NG
noggin
Founding member
We don't have 24 hr a day dedicated weather channels - but both Sky News Active and BBC News Interactive on digital satellite normally feature looped weather bulletins - allowing you to see an accurate and reasonably up-to-date forecast 24 hours a day (albeit it at quarter screen resolution)
Also BBCi's digital text service, CEEFAX on analogue teletext, and most other text services also carry reasonably accurate text (and on some platforms graphic) weather information.
Also BBCi's digital text service, CEEFAX on analogue teletext, and most other text services also carry reasonably accurate text (and on some platforms graphic) weather information.