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Title: Disco ball
Post by: Xetick on June 06, 2012

Wanted to try out my working in progress visualizer Plane9 v2 and modeling a disco ball is as good a test as any.
So 20 minutes later this was the result.
(http://www.plane9.com/ext/20120606_DiscoBall2.jpg)

Operations used are sphere, facette, randomize vertices, perlin noise and fxaa.
It's just amazing how much fxaa, or well any aa for that matter, improves a image. If you haven't tried it in your demos I hilighly recommend it since its so cheap and is just a single full screen shader pass.

Title: Re: Disco ball
Post by: benny! on June 07, 2012

Wow ... looks fantastic. Guess it even looks better in motion!

Well done  :clap:

Title: Re: Disco ball
Post by: va!n on June 07, 2012

@Xetick:
Wow, screenshot looks really nice... would really like to see it in action....
Btw, i need to download and install your latest version to see whats new and your progress on this tool. *thumb up*

Title: Re: Disco ball
Post by: energy on June 07, 2012

Yes... looks fantastic. Would like to see in action too!   ;D
 

Title: Re: Disco ball
Post by: Kirl on June 07, 2012

Awesome, ditto on the motion!  :clap:

Title: Re: Disco ball
Post by: Shockwave on June 07, 2012

The screenshot looks stunning :)

Title: Re: Disco ball
Post by: Xetick on June 07, 2012

Thanks all of you for the nice comments. I'll see if can create a movie in the next few days.

Quote from: va!n on June 07, 2012

@Xetick:
Btw, i need to download and install your latest version to see whats new and your progress on this tool. *thumb up*

Nothing has officially happened for almost 1 1/2 years. I have been working on v2.0 of the visualizer (and a network operations center system among other things). v2 will probably not be released for another 1/2 year since I plan to rebuild the whole gui in Qt 5 and skip .Net altogether since its only used for the gui.
But so far the Plane9 core has had some nice additions. Transitions for one, fxaa, floating point RTT's, completely new mesh system with subdivision, extrusion, bevel and some other things. I'll see what will end up in the final release.

Title: Re: Disco ball
Post by: Xetick on July 14, 2012

Here is the promised video. Took a while because of a bug in the video recorder part of the visualizer but it's fixed now.

[youtube]mm34eb7K6jI[/youtube]

Title: Re: Disco ball
Post by: Shockwave on July 15, 2012

I really love the soft beams of light Xetick, it looks just as cool as I thought it would from the first screen shot :)

Title: Re: Disco ball
Post by: Kirl on July 15, 2012

Awesome, very cool!  :clap:

Title: Re: Disco ball
Post by: Dr.Death on July 16, 2012

What can i say  :updance: