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A gamer and a graphic artist at the costumers site HalloweenCostumes.com teamed up to create a mashup of the animated character Lara Croft through nineteen years of the Tomb Raider video game series; they realized it also illustrated the unfolding of Moore's Law on console and PC video hardware more convincingly than the usual logarithmic-scale bar and line charts.
When the series started in the mid-90s, the small number of polygons and simple shading models used to render the character were painfully obvious. Contrast that with the nearly lifelike renderings of Lara from the 2013 and 2014 editions, which take advantage of orders of magnitude more capable hardware to employ sophisticated modeling and rendering techniques, not to mention gameplay.
More verbose histories of Tomb Raider can be found here (2008), here (2011) and here (2013).
(Score: 4, Informative) by janrinok on Sunday February 22 2015, @08:46AM
The story was partly produced by staff of HalloweenCostumes.com - and we try to attribute work wherever possible. We have not suggested that you support them in any way nor have we made any comment on the quality or otherwise of their commercial business. This is not a plug for them any more than a link to El Reg, CNN or Ars Technica would be considered a plug to their sites.
The link to imbd,com is to illustrate who or what Lara Croft, in this context, is - we don't all spend our days gaming and there are many who have never even heard of the character. Not all geeks and nerds spend their spare time pretending to be some fictional character. slaughtering other soldiers, or striving to defeat demons and dragons. I have no problem with those that do, but it is not all or even the majority by any stretch of the imagination.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 22 2015, @10:43AM
Now the link is all gone? I had to google it to find the mentioned page at all.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday February 22 2015, @12:29PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 22 2015, @08:17PM
Maybe the AC is referring to the fact that it's a Wikipedia not IMDB link. Not that it makes much difference.