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Wow now that brings back memories! Thanks for the link!

Nice bumpmapping and phong shading!

Whoa cool, thank you for sharing that link!

Thank you!

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 and I didn't have the to do anything better so it was mazes or controlling the turtle in LOGO

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 burnout earlier this year, and this has lifted my spirits exponentially.

I appreciate your comment and all the kind words others have shared.

Not sure, but Future Crew was soooo good. Someone should take a stab at it!

I can offer what little I know to help.

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!

Indeed, that is very impressive!!!

Heck yeah you're welcome! It was a blast to put together

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.

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/

https://github.com/quil/quil

Just lean into the declarative lisp style and immutable data and make some beautiful art to share with others!

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; they just cycle the color palette's offset against a static pattern, which is a direct software simulation of that classic Amiga hardware hack.

Just took a look, very cool algorithmic art! Thanks for sharing!

D'oh! Now that I'm in my mid 40s there's so much I've forgotten!

Thank you for the reminder

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/news/drawing-on-a-canvas-elemen...

From there, you'll need a good understanding of loops, control flow, data structures like arrays to store the pixels, lines, shapes, and colors, wiping and redrawing the screen between "ticks" (a single pass of the main loop), and refresh timing to control the speed of the animations.

On a side note there's actually a refresh bug in my plasma demo I just noticed a moment ago... if you leave it open for too long on plasma it starts redrawing faster and faster until it looks like glitch-art!

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.

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!

w00t! Greetz!!!1

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!

Anytime! I was also trying to add a Star Wars like hyperspace feature to the starfield demo but I failed miserably at implementing it!

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!

Thanks for sharing, I do not believe that I was familiar with that term at the time.

You're welcome, it's my pleasure to share with ya!

Oh yes, I have similar memories mixing asm and pascal together in Turbo Pascal to get interesting results!!

It was my pleasure to work on and share, glad you liked it!

Has anyone ordered anything like this from alibaba? Just wondering if it was legit.