With a new year and CES upon us, it’s go time for pundits to predict the future of the technology industry. Lori considered the question of how technology might affect X-Plane and pronounced:

Pixel shaders will get shadier.

I think she is right. It is only a question of how long until they are so shady that they are basically pitch black. (At that point, I expect a significant boost in framerates!)

About Ben Supnik

Ben is a software engineer who works on X-Plane; he spends most of his days drinking coffee and swearing at the computer -- sometimes at the same time.

3 comments on “My Wife’s Technology Predictions

  1. And what does this mean for vertex shaders? Would the same analogy go for them too 😉 ??? But they can't turn pitch black … but maybe result in a "pitch flat" terrain ???

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