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- From: judd@wilkinson.cs.colorado.edu (Stephen Judd)
- Subject: Re: Music and Code from Demos
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.004942.20842@colorado.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov4.064022.13680@ntg.com> <MKNIP.92Nov5110420@silver-surfer.hut.fi>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:49:42 GMT
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- In article <MKNIP.92Nov5110420@silver-surfer.hut.fi> mknip@niksula.hut.fi (Mats Anders Knip) writes:
- >> More generally, has any source code to demos ever been released?
- >
- >
- >> I'm particularly interested in filled vector demos. The only code I've
- >> successfully reverse-engineered was some starfield code from the group
- >
- >routine is a very complex thing, and nothing that should be disassembled
- >by an absolute beginner. You wouldn't understand half of it. First get
- >some experience of 3D programming by doing 3D-lines. To do filled
- >vectors you must really understand 3D.
- >
- >> Anyway. I want to learn. If someone could direct me to examples of
- >> filled vectors, copper plasma, starfields, et al, so I can craft my own
- >> stuff, I'd greatly appreciate it.
- >
- >Copper plasma and starfields are really easy to do. Try to get somebody
- >who is more experienced than you to explain how they work, and then
- >try to do the routines yourself. The hard way is always the best way
- >in the beginning.
- >Filled vectors are by no means difficult, but getting them fast is
- >another thing. Still, filled vectors shouldn't perhaps be the first
-
- This is of course not a flame, but are you aware of who you are talking to?
- You are talking to Leo Schwab! He is THE original Amiga hacker! He wrote
- a whole bunch of hacks you might have seen (like !esuom). He wrote one of the
- earliest Amiga demos I saw, a very funny thing called Marketroid. I still
- have it, and it still makes me laugh. Finally, he is the one who wrote
- the Disney Animation Studio. He is one of my heros, along with Jim
- Butterfield.
-
- So I don't think you are talking to "an absolute beginner"! :-)
-
- -Steve
-
- > *=-------------------------------------------------------=*=----------------=*
- > * E-Mail: mknip@niksula.cs.hut.fi * *
- > * Helsinki University of Technology / * *
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