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- From: gnort@daimi.aau.dk (Lars Balker Rasmussen)
- Subject: Re: Music and Code from Demos
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.203139.6610@daimi.aau.dk>
- Sender: gnort@daimi.aau.dk (Lars Balker Rasmussen)
- Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
- References: <MKNIP.92Nov6113247@blob.hut.fi> <1992Nov06.161907.20975@crash> <MKNIP.92Nov9165110@blob.hut.fi> <1992Nov09.153733.21366@crash> <1944@lysator.liu.se>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 20:31:39 GMT
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- marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans) writes:
-
- >Just a note to everyone: Plasma is not the same thing on PC and Amiga.
- >On the PC, plasma is a just a still picture (often with colour cycling),
- >similar to fractals, not something real time animated. On the Amiga, plasma
- >is a raster effect, changing the colours lots of times on the screen.
-
- It is a historical note of interest of course, that the first plasma demo on
- the Amiga (not too sure about the name, 'Plasma World' sounds correct) by
- Danish group Humanoids' coder Alien, was in fact 'born' when he saw a fractal
- colour cycle on a IBM PS/2 back when we were in high school together. He
- thought it looked great and went home to see if it was possible to do some-
- thing like that on the Amiga. Rather crude-looking by the end of that years
- (1990... or 1989 ;) standards, but still a revolution.
-
- Gnort of Upfront
-
- PS: Just thought I'd remind you which group made the first smooth plasma ;)
- Of course we got a tendency to make too many of them per demo....
- PPS: Alien has technically been a member of Upfront for somewhat close to two
- years, but he doesn't code anymore.
-