Back in my day we used to hand-code our ray tracing scenes, and we liked it!
Wow, does this ever bring back memories. Big props out to you and the other coders. I had no idea that the name Persistence of Vision had been lost over time. I always loved that name.
We used to play a lot with DKBTrace, Vivid, etc. on our rockin' 286s. Along with Fractint for those funky fractals. Actually, I think I started with Fractint and DKB on an XT...
I remember dialing into You Can Call Me RAY too!
I still have POV installed on my machine but haven't actually used it for a while. I used it for a website about 7 years ago where I mapped the company's logo colours onto spheres that I turned into rotating buttons. I then processed the animation frames using Photoshop's brand-new batch commands. They finally stopped using those buttons last year sometime. Found a copy on the wayback machine though: http://web.archive.org/web/19990218075344/www.andr ewsgreene.bc.ca/home.html
-- Not much to look at now, but at the time it was pretty cool.;)
Geez, now I'm going to have to take a break from Doom III and do some ray tracing...
The Killer is one of my all-time favourites and Hard Boiled is great. Any of his Hong Kong work is much better than the crap he's been making for Hollywood.
No one said he belived he was doing anything legal. He could have assumed it was from a closed beta test that would not be mentioned on the website or freely avalable.
If you'd RTFAs, you'd see that he's got that covered.
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I just finished watching Firefly on DVD and I thought it was fantastic. The Objects in Space episode really blew me away.
I even got my mum hooked on it!
I had similar experiences showing off OS/2 to folks with a 486 and 8MB of memory.
I remember once demoing it by installing a Windows application from multiple floppies, downloading a file at full speed (9600 a the time) and playing a game (Doom I think). When Windows would beep for the next floppy I'd pause the game, switch back to Windows, continue the install, switch back to the WPS and check the download which hadn't missed a beat.
I really miss the fantastic GUI. And having voice built in at the OS level was incredible (in the later versions).
I was a Team OS/2 member too. Had a lot of fun with that....Jono
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Wow, does this ever bring back memories. Big props out to you and the other coders. I had no idea that the name Persistence of Vision had been lost over time. I always loved that name.
We used to play a lot with DKBTrace, Vivid, etc. on our rockin' 286s. Along with Fractint for those funky fractals. Actually, I think I started with Fractint and DKB on an XT...
I remember dialing into You Can Call Me RAY too!
I still have POV installed on my machine but haven't actually used it for a while. I used it for a website about 7 years ago where I mapped the company's logo colours onto spheres that I turned into rotating buttons. I then processed the animation frames using Photoshop's brand-new batch commands. They finally stopped using those buttons last year sometime. Found a copy on the wayback machine though: http://web.archive.org/web/19990218075344/www.andr ewsgreene.bc.ca/home.html
-- Not much to look at now, but at the time it was pretty cool. ;)
Geez, now I'm going to have to take a break from Doom III and do some ray tracing...
I've never seen Windows move this fast.
Boot time is cut in half, the whole system is more responsive.
The Killer is one of my all-time favourites and Hard Boiled is great. Any of his Hong Kong work is much better than the crap he's been making for Hollywood.
In which case it would be, ummm...pirated?
If you'd RTFAs, you'd see that he's got that covered.
I just finished watching Firefly on DVD and I thought it was fantastic. The Objects in Space episode really blew me away. I even got my mum hooked on it!
Wow, that brings back some memories... Built a lot of BBS screens with that proggy.
There are alternatives, actually. Photopaint for one.
It's a lot more complicated than html. It's not a markup language, it's a stack-based programming language.
I was going to post a link to this article but someone beat me to it.
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I had similar experiences showing off OS/2 to folks with a 486 and 8MB of memory.
...Jono
I remember once demoing it by installing a Windows application from multiple floppies, downloading a file at full speed (9600 a the time) and playing a game (Doom I think). When Windows would beep for the next floppy I'd pause the game, switch back to Windows, continue the install, switch back to the WPS and check the download which hadn't missed a beat.
I really miss the fantastic GUI. And having voice built in at the OS level was incredible (in the later versions).
I was a Team OS/2 member too. Had a lot of fun with that.
Might have been based on the older one. Had a small map on the screen.
Anyone know if it was ever ported to anything else?
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I recommend Lem highly as well - read most of his books in my teens. They really make you think. ...Jono