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D I S K O V E R Y
This issue turned out to be a
grand graphics extravaganza. This was
not so much by planning, but by the
serendipity of reality, where things
work out for those with hope.
When I was in college, I wanted to
become a great movie director. So,
besides producing and directing
television shows on the college cable
channel, I conned friends to go out
with me and my 8mm movie camera.
Usually, the results were -- well --
good practice. We learn by making
mistakes, right?
But one winter day, a couple of
guys grabbed their rifles, jumped into
a beat-up '57 Chevy, and raced out to
an abandoned cemetery. I caught it all
on film. They climbed over the back
fence and moved quite purposely
through the Missouri woods. Suddenly,
they spotted something, took aim,
shot. Since I was the only other body
present, I got to play their prey.
Anyway, after I got the film back
from the processor and edited, I put
an LP by Moondog on the stereo and
played a song along with the film. It
was a perfect match -- timing, mood,
even the denoument was emphasized by
the sudden end of the song.
That is serendipity. Here it began
with Jane Voskamp-Jones graciously
sending me another copy of her GEOS
graphics. Then I got hooked on
Mandelbrot. Toss in a couple of demos,
and we have a fantastic graphic issue.
We did include some brain ware and the
LOADSTAR Library update and some
extremely informative text articles.
The opening title animation is a
little trick I learned while studying
film. As long as an object moves no
more than half of its length, the
movement will appear natural and
smooth. With Mandelbrot Microscope
images, we have three colors to play
with. So I took this image to GoDot
and used two colors for three images,
alternating
1 1 2
2 1 1
1 2 1
I then copied the color memories
of the three images to one file, and
wrote a little ML routine that would
quickly copy the color to Video and
Color memory. (I had hoped to use a
CopyMem routine, but copying first
Video, then Color created too much
flicker. This is much nicer, eh?)
So what's for next month? I have
to wait until something new arrives
(hint, hint). But, as always, LOADSTAR
will be The Premier Monthly Software
Digest for the C-64/128!
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