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Title: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on July 26, 2009
Magnification Challenge Voting!

Firstly I just want to say how overwhelmingly brilliant this challenge has been, I am really proud of the entries that this community has made to this challenge, you've really done yourselves proud.

There are a lot of different approaches taken to this challenge as usual, some people used cutting edge technology, people had different takes on the subject matter and in the end we ended up with examples ranging from lenses to a journey through a circulatory system.

I have no idea who will win this, it's too close to call, there are several entries here that are all worthy of the top place.

I need to apologise for the delay of a couple of hours in getting the voting started, it's just that there are 17 entries this time and they took a while to type them up!!

Do yourself a favour and have a glance through the topic and refresh your memory on these wonderful things before you vote, the makers deserve that!


Voting Rules


Karma and prizes will be awarded when voting closes!

Thanks for voting.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on July 26, 2009
Entry Name:Microscopic World
Entry Author:Rbz
Entry Url: http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php/topic,4267.0.html


Description:

A highly magnified cell pulses in the center of the screen, while smaller cells drift quickly upwards, colliding with each other as they go.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on July 26, 2009
Entry Name:Bacteria
Entry Author:Jim
Entry Url: http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php/topic,4241.0.html


Description:

Jim zooms in on a minature battlezone where you will see transparrent bacteria multiplying and trying to populate the screen, meanwhile, penecilin like mold cultures try to destroy as many of them as they can.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on July 26, 2009
Entry Name:Magnified Rotozoom
Entry Author:Tindragon and Zawran
Entry Url: http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php/topic,4266.0.html


Description:

Tindragon uses Zawrans software render library here to perform a rotozoom. It's the familiar XOR texture, it is magnified and the larger versions are displayed on the right in three small pannels.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on July 26, 2009

Entry Name:Cells
Entry Author:Hellfire
Entry Url: http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php/topic,4255.0.html


Description:

Hellfire shows us some really slippery, organic looking cells that slip and slide over each other, dividing as they do so. You can click into the screen and stir them up which provides some satisfying liquid motion, after a few seconds they begin to dance to the music, music in the blood eh?


Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on July 26, 2009
Entry Name:Lesser
Entry Author:Ferris
Entry Url: http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php/topic,4260.0.html


Description:

Ferris takes us trough some kind of highly magnified and tastefully coloured circulatory system where you can see various cell types doing their stuff, all this is done in 4KB with his own softsynth to providing the ambient music.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on July 26, 2009
Entry Name:Molecular Fusion
Entry Author:Clyde
Entry Url: http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php/topic,4269.0.html


Description:

Clyde uses some metablobs to simulate the coming together of atoms, the intro contains cheerful music, and messages are displayed in the center of the atoms, the entry was posted with just 2 minutes to spare for the deadline so please check it out it you haven't watched it yet.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on July 26, 2009
Entry Name:Magnification
Entry Author:Littlewhite
Entry Url: http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php/topic,4263.0.html


Description:

The display shows a really highly zoomed in grey particle, this is coloured by some other particles, one red, one green and one blue, the zoom increases on the scene as the entry continues.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on July 26, 2009

Entry Name:W.I.P
Entry Author:Benny!
Entry Url: http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php/topic,4237.0.html


Description:

Benny makes a simulation of Brownian Motion, the behaviour of smoke particles that are bombarded by tiny atoms in our atmosphere, the screen is displayed as a "fish eye" view when you click on it.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on July 26, 2009

Entry Name:C60
Entry Author:Combatking
Entry Url: http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php/topic,4254.0.html


Description:

In his own words, this is a simulation of the Buckminsterfullerine molecule, you can rotate and zoom the molecule with some sliders as some entertaining and descriptive text scrolls upward.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on July 26, 2009
Entry Name:Barzoom
Entry Author:Tindragon
Entry Url: http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php/topic,4242.0.html


Description:

This entry hasa static picture from a space scene in the background, a vertical bar passes over the top of the picture, refracting the image behind it as it does so. To make things more interesting, Tindragon also draws some bobs which are refracted too.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on July 26, 2009
Entry Name:Blobzoom
Entry Author:Zawran
Entry Url: http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php/topic,4232.0.html


Description:

Zawran dudted of his IDE and created a colourful particle show, moving the mouse around you can control the particles which fall down the screen, blending as they do so. The center of the screen is magnified.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on July 26, 2009

Entry Name:Windows Zoom Effect Nine
Entry Author:Yaloopy
Entry Url: http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php/topic,4123.0.html


Description:

Yaloopy took one rather normal looking image, added some circles and then used effects from windows movie maker to create a psychedelic and colourful zoom effect, a youtube video is provided for this wild entry.

Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on July 26, 2009
Entry Name:Ecstasy Trip
Entry Author:Va!n
Entry Url: http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php/topic,4268.msg56912.html#msg56912


Description:

A colourful entry comprising of a few screens, the main one has a waving image of some bacteria with some added noise to simulate the effect of looking at it through a microscope.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on July 26, 2009
Entry Name:Floating Particles
Entry Author:Hezad
Entry Url: http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php/topic,4174.0.html


Description:

This entry features some blurred particles which move around the screen, adding together and then splitting apart. The whole idea is made more appealing by the lense distortion that is applied to the whole image.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on July 26, 2009
Entry Name:Molecules
Entry Author:Littlewhite
Entry Url: http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php/topic,4262.0.html


Description:

The screen displays several cell like structures, these cells move around and rotate a little, all the while the screen is becoming more and more magnified until eventually you zoom right into the nucleus of one of the cells.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on July 26, 2009

Entry Name:The Sinus Bobs New
Entry Author:Hotshot
Entry Url: http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php/topic,4250.0.html


Description:

A large swarm of circular bobs move around in some sine patterns which change over time, over the top of all this is a sine scroll.
The top part and the bottom part of the screen are reflections and theze reflections are magnified copies of the screen immediately connected to it.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on July 26, 2009
Entry Name:Life |Through A Lense
Entry Author:Shockwave
Entry Url: http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php/topic,4099.0.html


Description:

In this entry you will see a static picture of a forest, over the top of this picture you will see several lenses, the lenses magnify the area underneath them into a spherical shape, the lenses also "stack" which  means that they also magnify each other too.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Yaloopy on July 27, 2009
Great response to this comp. Fair play to every entrant and good luck! :)
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Clyde on July 27, 2009
Yep very cool work everyone.
Double check you've voted for 3 before submitting your votes.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Hezad on July 28, 2009
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Great response to this comp. Fair play to every entrant and good luck! Smiley

+1 :)
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: benny! on July 28, 2009
Quote from: Yaloopy on July 27, 2009
Great response to this comp. Fair play to every entrant and good luck! :)
++
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on July 28, 2009
K+1

At the moment, there are two entries in the running for the top spot, third place is tied :D
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: combatking0 on July 28, 2009
How many have voted - or is that top secret ;)
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Rbz on July 29, 2009
Quote from: combatking0 on July 28, 2009
How many have voted - or is that top secret ;)
Only 18 voters so far, we need more votes !
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: TinDragon on July 29, 2009
I would say if only 18 people have voted so far thats probably mostly those of us that entered the compo. I look forward to seeing who wins, we had some really nice entries :)
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Way.net on July 29, 2009
Quote from: rbz on July 29, 2009

Only 18 voters so far, we need more votes !

The standard of entries deserve more of peoples votes.Maybe a reminder might do the trick?
 :)
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: va!n on July 29, 2009
Only 18 votes until now is'nt really much... but please remember its holidaytime and hopefully somemore people may vote until voting deadline ;)
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on August 01, 2009
Someone is winning by a fairly large margin... Voting closes today, third place is currently tied, we have had 22 voters.. Just about 10 hours left to vote.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on August 01, 2009
Results!!
A great competition, a fantastic turn out as far as entries are concerned and all the votes have been counted!

First of all a huge thank you to everyone who supported this challenge, it's been one of the best that we have ever had, I had no idea who would win in the end, the standard as ever these days was very high.

Everyone who entered has been given K+1 for each entry they submitted, sigs have been awarded to the winners and the entries are already in the showcase.

Thank you too for all the voters, it was a pretty good turn out for the voting too.
Congratulations to:

HELLFIRE (1ST)
FERRIS (2ND)
JIM & RBZ (3RD - JOINT)
See you in the next challenge!
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: va!n on August 01, 2009
Congratulations to the winners :)
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Way.net on August 01, 2009
Congratulations to Hellfire for winning and to all the people that entered.A fantastic challenge

 :clap: :clap: :clap:
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: LittleWhite on August 01, 2009
Grats to the winner
Thanks to the others participants of course.

Again I get few votes ... and my worst demo ( for me ) had one more vote than my best one :s

Just, thought for a win of febris ... a 4k ... :s
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: combatking0 on August 01, 2009
The judges have spoken :) What a marvellous sight to behold the many entries.

Time to develop our skills for next time.

And it seems that Shockwave's self doubt was misplaced - Life Through A Lense did make it into the top 5.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on August 01, 2009
Quote from: LittleWhite on August 01, 2009
Grats to the winner
Thanks to the others participants of course.

Again I get few votes ... and my worst demo ( for me ) had one more vote than my best one :s

Just, thought for a win of febris ... a 4k ... :s


The votes are decided by the forum users, personally I thought that there were at least four entries here that could have potentially won it. Congratulations to everyone who took part, it was fantastic.

Quote from: combatking0 on August 01, 2009
And it seems that Shockwave's self doubt was misplaced - Life Through A Lense did make it into the top 5.

Wasn't good enough to win a sig though :)
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: LittleWhite on August 01, 2009
Of course the votes are made for the users ( and as good user I vote too ( not for my demo ... maybe it is the cause of this low score :p ) )

And I will continue to code anyway ;) I am doing always the challenge at the last moment :p.
Moreover was for me a kind of introduction to the shaders (GLSL) ( maybe the cause of the problem to run my demos :p )
Anyway, I am already updating my framework to a better result for the next time ;)
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on August 01, 2009
Good luck next time Littlewhte, fyi it is against the rules to self-vote, the poll is audited by myself and jim and believe me, nobody has self voted in the challenge, I know because I checked.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: LittleWhite on August 01, 2009
I know, I am always reading the rules before voting ... and my sentence was a joke ( I mainly don't mind about the results, just happy to particpate and to see other demos ).

But now I know that you are checking ... I am maybe too confident to think that nobody will self voted ( I am in a happy world :p )
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on August 01, 2009
Yeah they are always checked out mate, it's very important that the results are impartial :) Good luck for the next one. We have a theme in mind already. I might even post it tomorrow.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: LittleWhite on August 01, 2009
Geez, another competition ... my framework is not ready yet :p
And I am not sure to have the time ( but will be happy to see another competition ;) )
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Hezad on August 01, 2009
hey! Congrats to everyone and particulary to the winners :) That was a really nice challenge, I'm just a bit disapointed I could'nt run all those entries :S Anyway, can't wait for the next one  :updance:

edit : oh and thanks to the person who voted for my entry :) the votes are anonym so this person will recognize himself I guess ;)
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Clyde on August 01, 2009
@Little White: You did well, and it's the fun of having a go and taking part.

@Hezad: im a bit like you, and I cant run anything too up to date with anything above Pixel Shaders 2 and in too high a resolution.

Congrats to the top favourites.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: benny! on August 02, 2009
Yeah, thanks for all who entered. Was a real pleasure to watch your
creations. And congratz to the winners of course!
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: TinDragon on August 02, 2009
Yep gratz to the winners.

I guess I will join benny in the "were's my f**king vote" losers corner  :buddies:
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: benny! on August 02, 2009
Quote from: TinDragon on August 02, 2009
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I guess I will join benny in the "were's my f**king vote" losers corner  :buddies:

lol ... welcome on board, mate  :cheers:
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: hellfire on August 02, 2009
Personally I liked Ferris' entry so much better, but it's your job to decide...  :-\
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on August 02, 2009
Some last thoughts from me about this excellent challenge that I think should be said.

These challenges are a bit of fun, people enter them with the same spirit, in this case we had 17 entrants and 23 voters, it is concievable that some people could possibly get no votes... As is clear, there are several entries here that could have won it, there are three votes per person, it's no reflection on someone who has a few votes that they made a bad demo.

Nobody made a bad demo, everyone who enters has a great deal of respect and you should look at your comments as well.

As for whether another entry should have won the competition then I disagree with that because there is a clear majority of voters who voted for Cells.

The entry with the most votes wins, ergo Hellfire won.

As Hellfire says, it is the job of the voters to decide.

Please don't take these challenges too seriously, they are a bit of fun, an opportunity to express your creativity among friends, if you feel aggrieved in any way about the results of the voting then please understand that nobody massages them, they are the opinions of the people who visit here and you should keep your personal thoughts on matters like this to yourselves.

To post them here will only make the people who were rightly voted into the top three feel bad about their achievment and it somehow undermines the great thing that you all do for this community when you enter the challenges.

Thanks.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: TinDragon on August 02, 2009
I hope no one is taking my comment seriously, it was ment as a joke, votes or not the compo made me open the ide which is something I dont do often enough these days.

I am actually looking forward to the next compo, want to try and put some more effort in and really get into the ide and code something cool, so make it soon :D
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on August 02, 2009
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I hope no one is taking my comment seriously, it was ment as a joke, votes or not the compo made me open the ide which is something I dont do often enough these days.

I just don't want anyone to feel bad including you mate, especially as nobody voted for your entries.

You should know that everybodys' efforts are totally appreciated.

Everyone who supports these challenges either by way of entering them or by voting in them have my totaly unreserved grattitude and respect.


Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: benny! on August 03, 2009
Personally, I expected to get 0 votes and it is totally fine with me. Concerning all others
who got just a few votes I totally share the following statement:

Quote from: Shockwave on August 02, 2009
...
Everyone who supports these challenges either by way of entering them or by voting in them
have my totaly unreserved grattitude and respect.
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: combatking0 on August 03, 2009
It's not so much a case of pushing the technical boundaries, but pushing your own boundaries as a coder.

Also, there can only be one winner. Even on an even playing field, each entry had a 1 in 17 chance of winning.

I'm not passing judgement, but even my 1 vote result was a wake-up call for me. I need to get back in shape mentally and spend more than 10 hours on a competition entry if I want a podium finish.

Code ->  :boxer: <- Me
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: ferris on August 03, 2009
Great entries :) I'm quite happy with the outcome....congrats Hellfire, though mine seemed a bit "larger-scale" yours definitely fit the compo better, and was a fantastic prod to lose to :)

Congrats to everyone who entered too!! :)
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Yaloopy on August 04, 2009
Well done to all the winners and a special shout out to CK0's entry. Should win a scroller content award!
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: Shockwave on August 04, 2009
The malteesers version had the best scroller :)
Title: Re: MAGNIFICATION CHALLENGE VOTING!
Post by: combatking0 on August 04, 2009
Do I smell a scroller challenge? :goodpost:

I'm not bitter, I just regret wasting my time on facebook when I should have been learning and developing new tricks.