...pixels are your best friends!

-> http://spielwiese.marune.de/_uni/index.html

Enjoy,

taumel

 

nice work - what process are you using to convert from raster to 3d obj array - runtime or precalc?

Who is that character? - looks a little like Doraemon

 

Hi, it's runtime and one of the Bubble Bobble dragons..

Oops, i did a little mistake, the steering is v,b,n instead of c,v,b. Otherwise you might miss the rest.

 

I thought of you when doing this! ;O)

 

love the fractals... so demoscene (CD2 by Triton i think) - i'd love to see your code for the conversion - i was going to do this myself, but yours seems to be working great

 

Triton?

I don't know if that's exactly what you need as it depends on how you want to scale up but it's easily done as you just step through the texture in two loops (x,y).

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3GUfM7qkCw
1st place winner at the 1993 Computer Crossroads - one of the classics.
They had a Mandlebrot zoomer too

 

Ah okay, i don't know this many dos demos. I'm more about amiga and whilst saying so the beginning of this one reminded me strongly of hardwired:

-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_JH2CrUOQQ&feature=related
-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbUgbhBoiI4&feature=related

You can break the mandelbrot down pretty well if you need to. I primary just wanted to see how much speed you can gain by using the pixels command.

 

Amiga 1200 was god and Deluxe Paint ruined my teenage years

"...and now, Glens vectors - 48 faces!" LOL the good old days.

 

Actually i would trade a normal mapped vector object anytime for a glenz one. ;O)

 

as usual nice work taumel ; )

 

Thanks! Optimised it, so that i do get 20% boost on my Mini for the fractal.

 

Just out of curiosity i threw it (without specific optimisations) into BlitzMax as i wanted to see the difference. Compared to a naked Unity version you can experience 30% framedrop but you can use an imagesize of 512 instead of a 256. Otherwise it's faster by a factor of 2.8 here. (Updating the texture still costs some time.) Would need to alter the algorithm to get more speed out of it. Anyway was only for fun, so here it is:

-> http://spielwiese.marune.de/_uni/pouet/fraktal.zip (only osx,ppc)