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GENERAL => Challenges & Competitions => Topic started by: Shockwave on December 21, 2008

Title: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Shockwave on December 21, 2008
Before you vote:

Just to keep it fair for everyone who worked hard on the challenge;
The vote system is moderated, if you choose less than three then your votes will be discarded.
If you vote for your own entry your votes will be discarded.



This challenge has been a really fun one :)

Relsoft, who some of you know quite well gave me the idea to run a LED challenge when I was chatting to him one day.
Relsoft, sadly has not been feeling very well and my only regret is that he was not able to participate this time, get well soon mate.



Thank you to everyone for the nice entries! They have been excellent fun to watch, some great ones here and it's nice to see new faces entering the comp.

Thank you so very much for supporting the challenge :)

These challenges along with the code help that is available from all you great guys it the reason that dbfinteractive is still going strong. As always your fair play and helpfulness have made the challenge a doddle to moderate.



Now those great entries could do with some votes :)

A brief summary of each entry can be found below.
PLease do take the time to download and run them, they are all worth it!

Vain has created some excellent sigs for the winners!
You'll love them.
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Shockwave on December 21, 2008
Led On Led Fail.

By Optimus.

Optimus gives us a treat with his raycaster, featuring several well known and well loved effects, texture mapped onto the walls of the maze :)

All rendered with a nice LED display, some of them are broken (in the name of art).
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Shockwave on December 21, 2008
Cubesque

By Hezad.

This is Hezad's first entry into one of the coding challenges and it displays a 2d led matrix which contains a spinning, shaded  cube while 3D stars zoom into the screen behind the cube.
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Shockwave on December 21, 2008
Ledmania

By Ninogenio

This entry has several effects, a large sine scroll is constant throughout the demo, as well as some polar firewords and eventually 3D cubes drift down behind the scroller. The scroll is extruded to make it easier to read and a fast blur routine is added to make the LEDs look more authentic.
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Shockwave on December 21, 2008
LED

By Littlewhite

Even though this entry is all over with in a few seconds, it nevertheless contains a few parts :) A splash screen is displayed, then after some nice looking transitions we get a scroll routine. Another first time entry, hats off to you Littlewhite :)
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Shockwave on December 21, 2008
Cubes

By Hellfire

After watching this Pixelshader 3.0 marvel about 5 times I thought, well it's a simple concept. LED's contained in cubes, but the execution is astonishingly good with refracted light, subtle textures and glowing authentic LEDs that pulse in time to the excellent choice of song.
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Shockwave on December 21, 2008
LEDTronic

By Mr. Va!n

A nice tribute to LED's here, some pictures of girls and LEDs are displayed along with some classic demo effecs, such as textured tunnels, 3D floors and plasmas, tastefully put together with a good song choice that doesn't distract from the show.
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Shockwave on December 21, 2008
1.22% Led By God

By Praecor.

Praecor admits that he didn't spend long coding this entry, however don't let that stop you looking at it. It has a look that is different from all the entries with some gritty filters being applied to the graphics. The music is really atmospheric and composed by the coder too. There are several scenes in this demo, including some LEDs at the end. Nice one Praecor :)
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Shockwave on December 21, 2008
Winter Billboard

By Shockwave.

A reflective 3D floor with a scrolling LED matrix placed on it gets snowed on while the camera moves around the scene.
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Shockwave on December 21, 2008
LED Diodeball

By Shockwave

A basic Led matrix displays a rotating plotball and a flashing sine scroll.
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Hezad on December 21, 2008
*Voted*

Choice were VERY hard, a lot of very very cool entries ! That was a really nice comp' ! I would like to propose another entry but I couldn't because of a lack of time, ideas and motivation.

Anyway, congrats to everyone who entered the comp', that was a real pleasure to watch all those moving images ;D
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: bikerboy on December 21, 2008
voted too :), it was very hard to choose 3 among those fine productions.

g/luck to all participants :D
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Shockwave on December 22, 2008
Wow, the votes are really close!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Tetra on December 22, 2008
Good luck all :)

Well done to all the entries, you all did really well and thanks for supporting the challenge!
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Hezad on December 22, 2008
Hell yeah ^^ ***** and ***** are so close !!
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Shockwave on December 22, 2008
Names removed to remove voting bias, sorry Hezad!

But you're absolutely right, it's very tight. :)
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Hezad on December 22, 2008
Np, I understand :)
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Praecor on December 25, 2008
Was hard to decide only 3 because I loved at least 5. Good, good challenge.
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Shockwave on December 26, 2008
Thanks to everyone who voted in this challenge, and especially to all the people who entered :)

Congratulations to Hellfire for 1st place.
Va!n for second place.
Ninogenio for 3rd place.

We have some really cool sigs for the winners, Va!n drew them, I'll be adding them and the karma for the winners in the morning :D

I tried pretty hard this time to win a banner and got pwned ;) Very good job fellows!
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: va!n on December 26, 2008
va!n == 2nd place? Ah coool!  8)
Thanks to everybody who voted for my entry and for the other contributions! Thanks to everybody who entered an entry to this nice competition! You all have entered great and very nice stuff. So my congratulations are flying over to everbody who is part of this compo. Special congratulations and respect/handshakes to the 1st and 3rd place ;)
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: ninogenio on December 26, 2008
i really cant believe i got a place im well chuft cheers guys

congats to hellfire and vain!

and thanks everyone for some really lovely entries to look at
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Praecor on December 27, 2008
The voting was perfect! Congrats Nino, Va!n, HellFire. Well deserved!

It was awesome to see your prods!
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Hezad on December 27, 2008
Congrats !! That was really cool to look to all those entries, and the three first entries really deserve their place :)
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: hellfire on December 27, 2008
Oh, cool! ;D
That was again very very tight.
Many thanks to all voters and congrats to vain and nino and also all the other participants!
It was great to watch all these wonderful entries!
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: benny! on December 27, 2008
Yeah. Another cool competition ends. Congratz to all who
enters and of course to the winners. Thanks a lot for your
work.
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: bikerboy on December 27, 2008
congrats to the winners and everyone who participated :D
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: LittleWhite on January 03, 2009
I've Missed the vote ... :( Sorry
But I just saw all entries , and all are very cool.
Congratulations to the winners ;).
I hope that I'll can participate to the next competition ;)
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Shockwave on January 04, 2009
I hope you will have another go too Littlewhite :)

The winners will be added to the showcase tomorrow by the way, sorry for the little pause, some strange shit had been happening with the site code, the problem is fixed now though.
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: Shockwave on January 06, 2009

Winners have now been added to the Showcase (http://www.dbfinteractive.com/comps.php) :)
Well done.
Title: Re: LED Challenge Voting.
Post by: benny! on January 06, 2009
Uhh .. yeah ... looking cool there :kewl: