Subj : Re: Graphics
To   : Jasen Betts
From : Scott Adams
Date : Mon Feb 10 2003 12:12 am

 -=> Quoting Jasen Betts to Scott Adams <=-

 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 :)

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

        GWBasic?  My god..must be huge :)

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

 JB> often games use pre-computed ray traced images

        That's what I figure.  I don't need anything fancy its
        really just for show and wouldn't be critical to the
        game itself.

 

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