GPU Gems Chapter 3

Not many people are going to be inclined to open a rather substantial pdf file with no clue as to the contents of the pdf file.

"The chapter Skin in the "Dawn" Demo from GPU Gems, published by Addision Wesley."

That sure seems like a good description to me.

First off, not everybody knows who/what "Dawn" is. Secondly skin is pretty vague. Is it referring to shaders used on this skin? How the skin was rendered? A new form of elastic skin animation? Volumetric skins??? You get the picture.

I was simply suggesting that a sentence long comment describing the content would be nice. Not everybody has a connection capable of downloading 4 megs in a very small amount of time. Taking a quote from the paper itself: This chapter discusses how programmable graphics hardware was used to light and
accelerate the skin shader on the Dawn character in the demo. Add that sentence and offer a link to NVidia''s Dawn demo and people might decide to check it out. I might be way off but I am under the assumption that there is a correlation between the lack of any comments on this article and the number of people downloading/reading it.

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