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...spent the past four years painstakingly studying optics, and he has figured out how to make photons bounce around in a virtual space in much the same way that they do in the real world. Suddenly, pebbly surfaces cast pebbly shadows. Air ripples from the heat of a broken steam pipe. There is a crispness to details, a weight and solidity to objects and figures, a lifelike sheen to surfaces in Doom 3 that is unlike anything we've seen before...
...high-caliber weapons. Doom 3 tells the same story but this time treats it with surprisingly artistic tenderness. Carmack's light engine allows the game's designers to paint the story the way a film director would, with light and shadow, like a noir mystery. Scenes are lit by broken light fixtures, flickering and swinging, or cut up by the shadow of a spinning overhead fan. id's designers have worked wonders, despite the newness of the technology. "It's like making a movie while you're inventing the camera," says Tim Willits, the game's lead designer...
...about a thousand jobs in the sparsely populated east. The project finally got the go-ahead from Iceland's Supreme Court in January, after four years of legal wrangling over the environmental impact assessment submitted by Landsvirkjun. Alcoa's Fjardaál smelting plant, for which ground was recently broken in Reydarfjördur, a port on the country's largest east-coast fjord, will be Landsvirkjun's principal electricity customer. Excess capacity generated by the Kárahnjúkar power plant will be passed on to the national grid. The whole enterprise, says Arnalds, is "not only...
...California woman, in town with her fiance last week, was spotted perusing a table stacked with fake Vuitton, Kate Spade and Marc Jacobs handbags. She was looking for a new Vuitton bag because the strap on the one she bought in Chinatown had already broken. "I need a new bag, and I don't want to pay $600 for the real thing," she said with a shrug...
...Hoxby said certain elements of the law are broken...