Subj : Re: Graphics
To   : Scott Adams
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Tue Jan 21 2003 05:27 pm

Hi Scott.

14-Jan-03 02:34:42, Scott Adams wrote to Jasen Betts



 SA>> Any good graphics folks here these days?

 JB>> how good, and what flavour do you need... I like playing with
 JB>> vectors I don't think I'm be any good doing something like Doom
 JB>> though :)
 SA> I'm just asking right now.  We used to have a decade or so ago
 SA> alot of traffic in the graphics echo but not now.

 SA> I can't draw worth a flip a simple circle with one of those things
 SA> you draw circles with!...

 SA> but I always have occasional graphics quick questions to ask so
 SA> was curious who was here and what they knew.

 SA> Like I'd love to see code on planets rotating.  Ie there used to
 SA> be in win3.1 a afterdark screen saver trek style that showed
 SA> planets rotating in full 3d globe full and it would be nice to do
 SA> something like that for my game :)

I've got some code that does a rotating icosahedron with numbers written on
it. (it's wireframe with hidden line removal) but it's written in gwbasic :)

OTOH  what's you really want is a texture mapped sphere... Hmm this be
tricky.

often games use pre-computed ray traced images

 -=> Bye <=-

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