The NVIDIA demo team have released
a
DirectX 10 demo (186MB), and those of you with Vista, a GeForce 8800, and
the newest
100.64
drivers can have a go
here. The Cascades demo implements all kinds of graphical goodies, including
procedural geometry creation (the GPU generates an endless vertical rock
formation on-the-fly), dynamic particle physics (the GPU performs physics
calculations for water falling down the rock formation), and displacement
mapping (bumps and crevices in the rock surface occlude each other). Judging by
the few screenshots on Nvidia's website, the result is quite pretty indeed.
Ed.note: Does anyone have a video of this running on vista and 8800?