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C / C++ /C# / Re: jelly vector / dragon ball

« on: May 05, 2012 »

I was trawling through an old directory full of Amiga source code someone sent me through the post over a decade ago, and found one called jellycube.s.  For some reason I went through and commented it and fixed a few bugs while watching television.  It was resourced from some production, I have no idea what - any code unrelated to this effect was already stripped.

Here's a youtube video of the effect:
http://youtu.be/DDmLIdbQqVw

The commented source code is attached for what its worth.  I didn't bother spending too much time on the Amiga blitter code, but I think that there isn't much to learn from this.  All transformations are done from custom tables.  The "cube" looks to be a sham and is perhaps the three sides that face the camera given it's angle of rotation.  The y stretch is quite straightforward, and the x squish seems to be done in two ways - one a distortion of the 3D vertices, another some distortion of the screen projected 2D line/fill vertices.

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General chat / Re: What are you working on at the moment?

« on: April 30, 2012 »

Contemplating a remake.  Here's some images I reconstituted from copperlists and sequential bitplane data.  If you can work out what the extra data that looks like it could be something in the second image is, you get a peanut.  If you remember seeing the production back in the day, then maybe you thought it was as cool as I did.

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Challenges & Competitions / Re: CHALLENGE! Homage to the Spinning Cube

« on: April 26, 2012 »

Stumbled over this old post and it's spinning cubes 

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General chat / Re: What are you working on at the moment?

« on: February 29, 2012 »

Are you going for something like this?

Only as inspiration in terms of the retro look.  Zeewolf is more of an inspiration to me than Virus/Zarch, even though I never played either.  Once I have it shader-based with shadows, I'll add some more game-like elements and then start experimenting with variations on the look.

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General chat / Re: What are you working on at the moment?

« on: February 28, 2012 »

Had the same thoughts, looks really trippy with the small field of view!

Yeah, the field of view is an interesting legacy from days of limited processing power I guess.  There's a nice remake of Virus available here with Basic source, which has the option to switch cameras to and from the small field of view to other options.  The controls for Virus were too hard for me..

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General chat / Re: What are you working on at the moment?

« on: February 28, 2012 »

About a month ago I wrote some OpenGL code to make a retro-flat-shaded game engine.  Next step is to upgrade the OpenGL to be shader-based, rather than the old-style.  Then to extend the functionality.

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Coding tutorials / Re: Demoscene Seminar Videos

« on: February 25, 2012 »

There are a number from various sources here (mirror):

• Real-time Voronoi Fractals and Procedural Creatures. (Tom KH)
• Tricks and techniques for rgba's past and future intros (iq)
• .kkrieger - Content creation in 96kb
• A history of Farbrausch tools
• A workshop of .werkkzeug1
• From .kkrieger to debris. Procedural Content Generation Taken to Extremes
• Soft Synth, Hard Work - Getting the most out of Farbrausch's intro synth V2

Someone should upload these to youtube.

There are tons from Breakpoint and Assembly seminars.

• Breakpoint 2005 (missing vid links, soft synth one here too)
• Breakpoint 2006
• Breakpoint 2007
• Breakpoint 2008
• No page for Assembly 2003 or 2004, but there are videos above from then.  Assembly files can be browsed file hierarchy-wise here, and also they often seem to be on Youtube (see the pages below).  A lot of these are boring looking and would only serve to bring down the interestingness of any list, so selective picking would probably be best.  Also, this page says: "Since the year 2001 ARTtech seminars have showcased ..."
• Assembly 2005
• Assembly 2006
• Assembly 2008
• Assembly 2009
• Assembly 2010
• Assembly 2011
• For the following link, page to the next page and the seminars are there:
• NVScene08
• Function do not link to videos at all, even though at least the later ones (as you have linked to one above) are on YouTube.  I have to say their limited number look just as appealing as the same amount from the corresponding year of Assembly.
• Function 2008
• Function 2009
• Function 2010
• Function 2011

I think finding the ftp mirrors is probably better than relying on the seminar pages to be up to date, BP2009 was never updated or they never had any.

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General chat / Re: The most interesting thing I saw today

« on: November 12, 2011 »

Been looking for some cool browser intros..

Found this which fucking rocks.

http://www.wab.com/?screen=2

From there to here to here.  Sweet, there's no reason someone shouldn't be able to take this and make something with flat-shaded polygons.

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General chat / Re: The Welcoming Committee

« on: November 10, 2011 »

Hi,  I'd like to post so this account does not get deleted!

I like flat-shaded polygons, and other retro stylistic shenanigans.  While I have no idea how, I'd like to learn to make music with a tracker.  And make demo effects as programming experiments.  But what I'll actually do is read the internet while watching television.  Ooh-er.