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| | The Future of 3D Graphics |
 | | David Kirk is one of the brightest and most influential graphics architects in the world, and as last year's recipient of Siggraph's annual Computer Graphics Achievement Award, he stands among such graphics luminaries as Jim Blinn, Alvy Ray Smith, Kurt Akeley, and John Warnock. |
 | | To begin, Kirk mentioned that looking 10 years out is a long time in the graphics business, and he reflected back 10 years to the Silicon Graphics Reality Engine just emerging, and Nvidia just starting up. |
 | | Kirk rhetorically asked if we'll be able to continue to pace of innovation in graphics over the next 10 years, similar to what we've seen in the past 10-15 years, where graphics performance has increased greater than a factor of two every year. |
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