[Oberon] demo refresh

[John Drake]

--- Soren Renner <srenner at mail.ru> wrote:

> For all the loyal raytracing fans out there: 
> 
>
http://www.bluebottle.ethz.ch/contributions/sr/sr012705Ray.Arc
> 
> Yes, it is another exciting demo. 
> --
> Oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch mailing list for ETH Oberon
> and related systems
> https://www.mail.inf.ethz.ch/lists/listinfo/oberon

Soren, this is by far the best demo you've
released, and possibly the best Oberon 3-D
demo I've seen!  I can get 5 fps in normal
mode and 12 fps in foveated mode.  The
mirrored spheres are impressive, and having
a "Life" sim running in the tiles is a nice
touch.  I've been thinking more (and
experimenting with) doing a "stand along"
Windows version and I think it's possible.
I'll let you know more as I go along.
Also this demo gave me an idea of a game
that could be built off of it.  There was
an Atari game in the 80s called 
"BallBlaster".  It featured two hovercraft
riding on a 3D plane playing a version of
1 on 1 soccer.  

(See: http://www.langston.com/LFGames/)

And updated raytraced version could be a
hit among "retro" gamers.

Regards,

John M. Drake

 



		
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