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by gneissguise 1y ago
Wow now that brings back memories! Thanks for the link!
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by gneissguise 1y ago
Nice bumpmapping and phong shading!
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by gneissguise 1y ago
Whoa cool, thank you for sharing that link!
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by gneissguise 1y ago
Thank you!
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by gneissguise 1y ago
Oh man that would have been so cool! Sorry that it fell through.. I remember making infinite ASCII mazes by alternating forward and backward slashes in the late 80s early 90s. That would have been the grade school computer lab days for me a
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by gneissguise 1y ago
Thank you very much! I love how I never get any accolades for my other engineering work, but this demoscene recreation was a smash hit! Not complaining at all, I'll take any recognition I can get. I've been recovering from major b
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by gneissguise 1y ago
Not sure, but Future Crew was soooo good. Someone should take a stab at it! I can offer what little I know to help.
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by gneissguise 1y ago
You're the second person to mention dwitter.net, now I feel like I have to... Got a busy week coming up but when I have more downtime I'll join and share!
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by gneissguise 1y ago
Indeed, that is very impressive!!!
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by gneissguise 1y ago
Heck yeah you're welcome! It was a blast to put together
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by gneissguise 1y ago
Yep it has totally made a resurgence with the background animation trend showing up in modern web UI.. except without the pixelated appearance and the green phosphor color.
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by gneissguise 1y ago
If anyone is interested in doing algorithmic art while learning Clojure/ClojureScript then I highly recommend checking out the Quil library: https://landofquil.clojureverse.org/ http://quil.info/ http
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by gneissguise 1y ago
Excellent question. This is more a modern chunky pixel framebuffer, not planar. The spirit of the project, however, was to emulate the tricks that bitplanes made famous. The plasma and flag effects, for example, don't move any pixels;
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by gneissguise 1y ago
Just took a look, very cool algorithmic art! Thanks for sharing!
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by gneissguise 1y ago
D'oh! Now that I'm in my mid 40s there's so much I've forgotten! Thank you for the reminder
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by gneissguise 1y ago
Start off small, you gotta know your underlying API. For this demo it's JavaScript and the HTML5 canvas API (which is MUCH easier to learn than the languages of the 90s except for BASIC) https://www.freecodecamp.org/ne
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by gneissguise 1y ago
Thanks for sharing the link! I remember the lense demos, and I remember downloading one or two of them from a BBS that had NSFW pictures rendered in the background.
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by gneissguise 1y ago
I could see that too. I didn't own an Amiga but a friend of mine from school did. We had a blast playing Gobliiins!
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by gneissguise 1y ago
w00t! Greetz!!!1
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by gneissguise 1y ago
You would be correct, it's more the appearance of the demoscene than the actual underlying mechanism. A true in browser mode-x API would take me much longer than a weekend to implement.. But it does sound like a neat challenge!
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by gneissguise 1y ago
Anytime! I was also trying to add a Star Wars like hyperspace feature to the starfield demo but I failed miserably at implementing it!
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by gneissguise 1y ago
Thank you both for the corrections, I was a teen in the 90s so I could have had it wrong or misremembered. I just looked up the 13h interrupt and you are absolutely right!
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by gneissguise 1y ago
Thanks for sharing, I do not believe that I was familiar with that term at the time.
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by gneissguise 1y ago
You're welcome, it's my pleasure to share with ya!
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by gneissguise 1y ago
Oh yes, I have similar memories mixing asm and pascal together in Turbo Pascal to get interesting results!!
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by gneissguise 1y ago
It was my pleasure to work on and share, glad you liked it!
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Show HN: I recreated 90s Mode X demoscene effects in JavaScript and Canvas(jdfio.com)
189 points by gneissguise 1y ago|69 comments
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by gneissguise 13y ago
Has anyone ordered anything like this from alibaba? Just wondering if it was legit.