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Title: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on October 15, 2011
PHENOMENA CHALLENGE 2011

:sunny: - Welcome to the Phenomena Challenge -   :sunny:


This time the challenge is to take a look at some of the amazing things that occur in our world, choose one of these phenomena and to render your interpretation of it with code and make it look beautiful.

You could classify a lot of natural events as phenomena, from the Morroccan goats that climb the argan trees to eat the fruit, to the beautiful aurora borealis that you can observe in Northern latitudes.  One of the former would lend it's self nicely to a humorous entry perhaps, the second one is more akin to a demo effect.  You choose... You can choose a natural or man made one.

Here are a few ideas to get your creative juices flowing!

Lightning Storm, Crop Circles,Ufos!, Denmarks Black Sun,Meteor Shower, Contrails and cloud formations., Tornado, Light Refraction, Lunar Eclipse


The challenge of course is to choose a phenomena  which would lend it's self nicely to code, then code your effect and make it look awesome.

In your entry - please provide a brief description of the phenomena you've used as an inspiration.

Here are a few examples of natural and man made phenomena in action:

Upward Lightning:
[youtube]RDDfkKEa2ls[/youtube]


Light Dispersion:
[youtube]p27LyZcXfCM[/youtube]


Denmarks Black Sun:
[youtube]V71hz9wNsgs[/youtube]

Water Vortex:
[youtube]GkbMJSeI25Q[/youtube]


Tesla Coils;
[youtube]PdrqdW4Miao[/youtube]

Feel free to choose something else if there's something you think will look really cool!



:rockon: Here are the rules. :rockon:

       

:carrot: Here are the prizes! :carrot:

  • 1st Place  £25 - Gold Signature Icon - 20 Karma
  • 2nd Place - Silver Signature Icon- £15 - 15 Karma
  • 3rd Place - Bronze Signature Icon-  £10 - 10 Karma
  • All entries get 2 Karma

Good Luck!
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Raizor on October 15, 2011
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Raizor's Total Eclipse Simulator
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Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on October 15, 2011
Where's the smite button!!

(just kidding)
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Raizor on October 15, 2011
Quote from: Shockwave on October 15, 2011
Where's the smite button!!

(just kidding)

Hehe. Nice challenge topic, lots of possibilities :)
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Kirl on October 15, 2011
lol, runs pretty well in Firefox! ;D

Excellent topic once again Shockwave!
I think I'll  try a few natural disasters, my messy code alone should be a formidable one. ;)
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: LittleWhite on October 15, 2011
Nice compo

Hope to be able to find something doable :D
(Raizor stole my idea :D )
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: rain_storm on October 15, 2011
Brilliant idea for a compo! I'm gonna try my hand at this one :D
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Optimus on October 15, 2011
Awesome theme! One of my favorites.
I hope I can find the motivation to do something this time because that's what I said before but didn't :P
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on October 15, 2011
Brilliant!! Lots of early interest then... These themes are getting more and more difficult to think up :)
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: combatking0 on October 15, 2011
Awesome idea - I didn't see it coming.

Now I have to choose a suitably well known phenomenon which few others will choose to implement.
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: efecto on October 15, 2011
 :||
something I was working on is perfect for the theme  ;D

 :clap:
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: jace_stknights on October 16, 2011
Hope I will be able to get some spare time to produce somthing! This idea of challenge is very amazing!  :clap:
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: padman on October 16, 2011
Yep, truly a nice idea for a challenge. I'll try to enter something too. Even with my limited timeframe this time. Maybe I'll take a shot at the Windows bluescreen phenomena. Shouldn't be too hard to implement this...  ;D
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Dark_Coder on October 18, 2011
'natural phenomena' loads of scope with that.. I think i can find a few kewl things to throw into a nice demo.
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on October 18, 2011
Good luck :)
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: combatking0 on October 18, 2011
I've got an idea - I just need to make some adjustments to it, but the physics is in place.
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: TinDragon on October 20, 2011
I have just built myself a new PC and currently dont have any coding apps installed, this seems like a good reason to look into getting them on here, so I will see if I can make something for this challenge, but I cant promise anything as RL is very busy atm. Look forward to seeing what other make tho, even if I fail myself :)
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: combatking0 on October 24, 2011
Is there a limit to the number of entries in this competition? I've read through the rules twice, but I may have missed it.
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Raizor on October 24, 2011
Quote from: combatking0 on October 24, 2011
Is there a limit to the number of entries in this competition? I've read through the rules twice, but I may have missed it.

If you have multiple entries, I'd just submit the best one, otherwise you'll risk cannibalisng your votes. Just a thought.
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Kirl on October 24, 2011
Then again nothing would prove your 1337 coding skillz better then being in 1st, 2nd and 3rd all at once.  ;D
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on October 24, 2011
Quote from: Kirl on October 24, 2011
Then again nothing would prove your 1337 coding skillz better then being in 1st, 2nd and 3rd all at once.  ;D

:goodpost:

Quote from: combatking0 on October 24, 2011
Is there a limit to the number of entries in this competition? I've read through the rules twice, but I may have missed it.

There's no limit to the amount of entries, but it would probably be a better ploy to combine both your ideas into one if they go together, otherwise you will disadvantage yourself as Raizor said.. Unless you don't mind that and you're just having a blast making them.
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: benny! on November 06, 2011
Just saw this video - might be another source of inspiration:

Murmuration (http://vimeo.com/31158841)
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Raizor on November 06, 2011
That's a really cool video Benny, I would love to see something like that. No-one codes a particle engine like Mother Nature :)
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on November 06, 2011
Yeah, starlings are awesome :)

Maybe I should have chosen them.. I'm battling with the Northern Lights at the moment and losing :)
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: benny! on November 06, 2011
Quote from: Raizor on November 06, 2011
...No-one codes a particle engine like Mother Nature :)

trve!!!

@Shocky:
Damn, aurora .. that would be indeed a great FX. One of my favourite natural phenomena. More inspiration (http://vimeo.com/16917950). To be honest, I do not know a single demo which shows an aurora effect. So this might be a very interesting challenge to take. I wish you luck, mate!
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Raizor on November 06, 2011
Quote from: Shockwave on November 06, 2011
Yeah, starlings are awesome :)

Maybe I should have chosen them.. I'm battling with the Northern Lights at the moment and losing :)

I did consider attempting the Northern Lights, but decided it would be far too difficult :P Hehehe

I wish you the best of luck, I'm sure you'll pull something out of the bag, which I'm very much looking forward to seeing.
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on November 06, 2011
I can assure you that I'm tackling it in a very unscientific way!

It will suck :)
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Jim on November 06, 2011
I've coded a new fx!  But I have no idea what to do with it!
Jim
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: combatking0 on November 07, 2011
Whatever it is, there's likely to be 4 or 5 phenomena which do something similar  ;)
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Optimus on November 12, 2011
Hmm,. I have just started yesterday, I need more time for the idea I have to not look boring, my cat wants to play with me, my brother organizes lan gaming party in 1 hour, hmm.. what could I do?
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on November 12, 2011
You need to clone yourself mate.

Nice to see you Optimus, it's been a while :)
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: benny! on November 12, 2011
Hey Optimus, that's a hard decision ... would be cool to see a new production from you - but having some fun on a LAN-party is also a good alternative ;-)
Anyway, cool to see you back online.
Best,
benny!
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Optimus on November 12, 2011
Hoy, I am almost having something even if it sucks. If the guest are more late or in between the lan gamings, maybe I'll push it, maybe not.
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on November 13, 2011
Seems like you succeeded :)

Ok, voting will be up this evening at about 6pm!

Great entries this time! Thanks to everyone who has entered.
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: zawran on November 13, 2011
I wanted to try and get something done for this challenge, but unfortunately I just haven't been able to find the time and energy for it. Perhaps next time. Great to see that a good bunch of entries made it after all.
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on November 13, 2011
Quote from: zawran on November 13, 2011
I wanted to try and get something done for this challenge, but unfortunately I just haven't been able to find the time and energy for it.

There will be another comp before too long :)
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Hotshot on November 13, 2011
I thought it was great to enter but I got to remember to loop the music ...not stop way half the demo LOL  ::)
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: benny! on November 13, 2011
Just saw this video on Vimeo (was added yesterday). Think it somehow fits to the term Phenomena:

http://vimeo.com/32001208 (http://vimeo.com/32001208)
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Hotshot on November 13, 2011
Quote
Just saw this video on Vimeo (was added yesterday). Think it somehow fits to the term Phenomena:

http://vimeo.com/32001208

Breathtaking otherwords for Amazing!  ;D
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: benny! on November 14, 2011
More swarming/flocking behaviour:

http://www.wimp.com/sharkswimming/ (http://www.wimp.com/sharkswimming/)
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Jim on November 14, 2011
I got sent this link a day before the comp closed
http://vimeo.com/31158841 (http://vimeo.com/31158841)

Jim
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: benny! on November 15, 2011
Yeah, thats definately amazing, but I was first (http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php?topic=5391.msg72554#msg72554) :P
Title: Re: PHENOMENA CHALLENGE
Post by: Jim on November 15, 2011
Bah! Oops! :)
Jim