CHALLENGE! Homage to the Spinning Cube

[Jim]

HOMAGE TO THE SPINNING CUBE CHALLENGE 2012

- Welcome to our first challenge for 2012 -

Everyone has seen the archetypal spinning cube demo.  It's been done a million times and there's probably noone here that didn't cut their teeth on this classic demo theme.

This time the challenge is to take the spinning cube demo to a whole new level.  Give it a facelift and bring it spinning into 2012!

You could add more cubes or more colours, incorporate it into another fx, distort it, spin it through time and space.  Basically anything your imagination can stretch to.  The only thing is that your demo must feature the famous spinning cube as its central theme.

Here are some videos that might inspire you

(turn the music down for this one)

Here are the rules.

• Your Demo must use the spinning cube as its main theme.
• You can use any platform that is compatible with Windows 7, windows XP & Vista.
• You may write something for web browsers as long as it works in IE8 or Chrome or FF4 (or all!)
• If you use flash, please provide a link where people can see your demo. If you are placed in the top 3 your .swf will be added to the site as a .zip file You should attach the .swf in a zip file to your post.
• Wild entries are allowed and you may use any home computer / console.  Anything that is not windows based should be entered as a Wild.  Therefore you should upload it to youtube and post the video as your entry.  It's cool to post the binaries as well.
• 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!).
• Entries to be posted in this forum please with the title [CUBES] entry name.
• Entries may be posted between NOW and Midnight of [Saturday 19th May 2012] - UK GMT
• The winner [S?] will be decided by a poll of forum users
• If 1st, 2nd or 3rd places are tied there will be a vote-off to decide the winner.
• Late entries absolutely will not be counted for voting, even if one second over the deadline.
• Please PM any correspondence regarding rules to me, don't discuss them here such posts will be removed and not answered.
• 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.
• After the submission deadline You may NOT post ANY further attachments to final or other versions of your entry ANYWHERE on this forum until voting has closed.
• You may post a video of the entry along with the binaries (useful if you use shaders or linux etc).  In fact it is advisable that you do this if possible, especially if you use tecnology that not everyone possesses.
• Prize money is by Paypal only. No other forms will be discussed. PLEASE don't refuse your prize if you win!
• As well as appearing in DBF's showcase, your entry may be video captured and placed on DBF's youtube channel.

Here are the prizes!

• 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!

[Raizor]

Nice one Jim!

[padman]

Cool! I'm in! 

[Kirl]

Coincidentally I've been spinning my very 1st 3d rendered cube in Flash just about a week ago! Enough to impress myself, but I'll have to come up with something a lot better...

Looking forward to see some new takes on this oldschool effect! 

[Shockwave]

Nice!  Thanks for a really cool theme

[ferris]

Impossible to say no.

[combatking0]

Something for me to try my simple but growing OpenGL skills out with

[Voltage]

Find attached a bunch of random google images for inspiration.

[Raizor]

Find attached a bunch of random google images for inspiration.

Those are some great images Voltage. K++

Lots of ideas popped into my head after looking at those

[jace_stknights]

Wowow great challenge... 

Hmmmm can I make an Atari ST compo? 

[Shockwave]

Hi Jace, I think this covers it;

Wild entries are allowed and you may use any home computer / console.  Anything that is not windows based should be entered as a Wild.  Therefore you should upload it to youtube and post the video as your entry.  It's cool to post the binaries as well.

But I thought you were going to use Codef for this one?

[jace_stknights]

But I thought you were going to use Codef for this one?

Yep, it could be a good lib for this...

Hmmm. I really don't know what to use... Can also make a TinyC5 entry... and I'm actually learning OpenGl... could be also a motivation 

The big problem about using an old computer is that a majority of people will not test the entry on the real machine... and will only watch a video on youtube... 

Okay... got the week-end to think about it 

[Shockwave]

The big problem about using an old computer is that a majority of people will not test the entry on the real machine... and will only watch a video on youtube...

Probably true but there are a lot of us who have emulators installed which isn't the same as watching on the real machine, but it's better than youtube.  Anyway, as long as you know you're welcome to post an ST entry if you like then that's cool

[jace_stknights]

Got all the week-end to think about it!!! ST? Codef? OpenGl? 

[Pixel_Outlaw]

This sounds like it might be fun. I've been wanting to try something with Python and this gives me an excuse.

[hellfire]

Find attached a bunch of random google images for inspiration.

Great! I totally dig that prism thing.

[jstylen]

Sounds cool, I'll give it a try.

[andycb]

Sounds like a simple enough idea to stretch my legs on!

Thanks for posting!

[copse]

Stumbled over this old post and it's spinning cubes 

[Optimus]

Hmm,. I didn't got an email notification about this (or maybe I got and was put to spam folder by accident?)
Maybe I should just check the forum more frequently.

Anyway, I still have almost 2 weeks. I was writing a new soft engine from the beginning few days ago so this could come handy for this compo. I just need to draw lot's of cubes