MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE
Welcome to the MAGNIFICATION Challenge!
This has been the first challenge for a while, and after a long time thinking back to my school days I thought of an old experiment we once did, the experiment was called
"Brownian Motion" and it was the study of particles through a microscope, in the experiment, smoke particles were placed into a sealed environment and the environment was viewed through a microscope, you could see the smoke particles being punched around by the air molecules.
Here's a video of Brownian Motion that I found on Youtube, this one has a red laser shining through it and it looks quite like a demo effect :)
BROWNIAN MOTION
Some other things I found while looking for suitable subject matter are below:
WHITE BLOOD CELLS
BACTERIA
PROTOZOA
FLAGELLA AND CILIA
You can choose to show anything that you would see through a microscope, or maybe even an everyday item that is greatly magnified., Perhaps you'll make an Amoeba which goes on the hunt for other bacteria, maybe you'll simulate some of the microscopic life that exists under the ocean.
Here are the rules!
- Your demo must display a scene viewed through a telescope, microscope,magnifying glass or other magnification device.
- You can use any playform that is compatible with windows XP+Vista.
- You may write something for web browsers as long as it works in IE7 or FF3 (or both!)
- The following emulators are welcome: Vice, Winuae, Saint, PS2 Yabasic
- Please give credit if you use ripped sound/gfx, or even better credit the original artist.
- Please write something new for the challenge, no previously released stuff.
- Do not use ripped routines. (dlls, libs, fmod, sdl, frameworks etc are fine but say what you used please!).
- Two entries per person maximum.
- Entries to be posted in this forum please with the title [MAGNIFICATION] entry name
- Entries may be posted between NOW and Midnight of [25th July 2009]
- The winner [S?] will be decided by a poll of forum users
- If 1st place is tied there will be a vote-off to decide the winner.
- Late entries will not be counted for voting.
- Please PM any correspondance regarding rules to me, don't discuss them here thanks.
- Please include a screenshot of your entry in your post.
- Please only post finished work, if you update your entry the final one will be voted on.
- You may post a video of the entry along with the binaries (useful if you use shaders etc).
- Your entry may be a realistic image or a charicature of one, for example a cartoon version of microbes would be acceptable, as would a realistic fly-by of a virus under an electron microscope... These are just examples, please do interpret the rules and use your creativity.
Here are the prizes!
- 1st Place $25 - Sig - 20 Karma
- 2nd Place - Sig - 15 Karma
- 3rd Place - Sig - 10 Karma
- All entries get 1 Karma
Good luck!
That sounds fantastic. Really like the comp's theme - and I think you
really put up a cool description about the contest and adding the
video footage is truley inspiring.
Setting the deadline to late July is a good idea - so everybody has got
enough time to enter this challenge.
Let the battle begin 8)
Look out ;)
Cool, I smell perlin noise :P
Synaesthesia? :P
Here's hoping I get time to play in this comp too!
Jim
Magnification? The possibilities for a little AI and some probability based quantumn physics are definitely there.
Now to code... :xmas:
Time to open my IDE too :)
Interesting theme.
You might find some inspiration in Protozoa (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=9471) and We Cell (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=13028).
Quote from: hellfire on June 07, 2009
Interesting theme.
You might find some inspiration in Protozoa (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=9471) and We Cell (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=13028).
@HellFire:
Time for dead cells II, eh ;-)
I hope to see some bacteria and plankton among the entries, amongst other ideas too of course :)
Anyone else working on anything? :)
Quote from: Shockwave on June 26, 2009
Anyone else working on anything? :)
/me is still googling for some ideas. Nothing started yet. But I hope to find an idea
soon. Fortunately there are some days left ;-)
What country are the 25 dollars in?
United States Clyde, does it make a difference if you'll enter or not? :P
I haven't really come up with anything much yet. I tried a couple of things that didn't quite work out. I am still poking around though. :)
Well, good luck to all who enter :)
There's still lots of time till the closing date :)
Hello,
I just noticed this post, so I will think about this subject.
For the moment I am not sure to produce something ( seems to be really hard subject ; no idea )
But if I can I will send something
Good luck to all other participants ;)
Good luck mate :)
7 Days left for this guys and only 3 entries so far!
I have just start to work on it :s
We will see ...
Quote from: Shockwave on July 18, 2009
7 Days left for this guys and only 3 entries so far!
Really ?!
I need to start something right now... :stirrer:
Cool! Maybe we'll end up with a few entries after all!
Well, less competitors means that I will win easily, muahahahaha :diablo:
Spend two days ago with some simply brownian motion stuff.
Looks very shitty until now ... but I'll hope to find some more time in the
next days....
Brownian motion is cool :)
I have an idea for a 3D entry, but it is based on my 4D Earth project for the caculation of where everything should go. All of the drawing routines will be very different.
Will this be allowed?
Regardless, I will create it any way. Only the entry into the competition will be affected.
Of course it will be allowed! We look forward to it! :kewl:
Jim
Yay! I've got all the base-data for my subject matter, so I just need to create the program to present it.
Totally happy that we are now up to 8 entries for the challenge now :D
Thanks folks, the winning entries will take their rightful place on the showcase :D
Mine is almost ready - I just need to put some controls onto it and a text scroller. The 3D rendering (if it can so be called) is working, so that's the tricky bit out of the way.
Great! Good luck with it mate.
hi... just a small question about the deadline... ("...Midnight of [25th July 2009]...")... Does this means, entrys must be posted until 25.07.2009 @ 23:59:59 or until 24.07.2009 @ 23:59:59 ? ^^ Thanks
The last minute of Saturday, 23:59 GMT mate.
Good question va!n
I think one time I missed the deadline due to the confusion :p
thanks nick =)
i have directly started to code something... (not finish yet ^^)
Gaaahhh fighting with the deadline!!!
Just to be sure...the deadline is this 0:00 on the 25th? :P
Hope I can finish this beast!
@Ferris:
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The last minute of Saturday, 23:59 GMT mate.
;)
Ooooohh!! hahaha ok thanks :D I was so frantic...now I can relax a bit :P
It would be excellent if you entered this one Ferris :)
For a while I was wondering if we'd get many entries, but now I have to say I am really happy with it.
Oh you just wait ;)
Quote from: Shockwave on July 24, 2009
It would be excellent if you entered this one Ferris :)
For a while I was wondering if we'd get many entries, but now I have to say I am really happy with it.
Yup. Me too.
For a while I had pondered about starting this code challenge, I was really worried that it wouldn't get a lot of support, now I think that people are going to have a really hard time choosing a winner, the entries are of a very, very good standard.
The deadline is GMT midnight tonight for any last minute entries, I will add the poll tomorrow morning.
Finally there is a lot of entries ...
Hope to see a lot of voters now ;)
FYI.
Please do not Update / add binaries to your entries during voting. It is unfair, two people have done so (innocently I believe), those archives have now been removed, remember that people worked hard on their entries, not everyone has voted, the deadline has passed and you are being unfair on everyone else if you ammend your comp threads, if you have any further developments on your entries, please post them elsewhere in the community but NOT on the competition threads while people are still voting!