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Very nice, is the a video?

• jacquesm 8y ago
  I wish. We're talking early 90's here, maybe even a bit earlier than that (I could find out the exact date if I dig hard enough). I was lucky enough to be able to get a beamer with enough lumens that it could be used for an audience that large, a giant NEC iirc. The display was 800x600x24, hidden line removal was done by back-to-front drawing, double buffering courtesy of a TSENG card that had enough ram to have two full screens worth of data. The card could have gone higher but the beamer only did 800x600 (which was pretty good, most of them at the time only did 640x480). It did about 10 fps or so with a few hundred objects, all simple blocks of a certain color extruded from a scan of an aerial photograph (which I still have, one of the oldest things I still have related to my work). The idea was to get people to look at the new situation from the vantage point of their house. By todays standards it was totally lame, but back then it was awesome, a couple of years later I bought an Indy and never wrote another line of 3D->2D code but I loved that work. Intersting tidbit: I got paid with a car, a rusty old Citroen DS that I took the engine out of to rebuild my own. Fun memories.