#computer graphics

[spockvarietyhour]

Battlestar Galactica "Saga of a Star World" & Computer Graphics

[notaboxofrocks]

So, my bf got to test the Monster Hunter Wilds beta and his graphics are really shitty so:

And I immediately thought of…

[keepinventory]

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DO YOU LIKE OLD COMPUTER GRAPHICS?!

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[th3-0bjectivist]

Esmer-Alda - Animated painting

In the Frozen South, there are yet fragments of a metropolis of tall temples, that once touched a clear blue arctic sky, which glistened on snowy hilltops like a brilliant green gem on a lily-white horizon. This city was and is the Emerald of the South, whose lush beauty has decades-faded away, but nonetheless holds as a modern bonfire of desperate survival after The Undoing.

[arconinternet]

Frac (DOS, Simsalabim Software, 1990)

A Swedish 3D Tetris clone with unusually-shaped pieces. You can play it in your browser here. May run slowly in Firefox.

[kply-industries]

[systemdeez]

Of course your textures are not perspective correct causing them to warp at odd angles and you have pronouns in your bio.

[mouthtapedguy]

Cinema special effects before computers. Charlie Chaplin with a brilliant technique to create the fake depth.

[retroscifiart]

Digital assets for the CGI sequences in Tron (1982)

[endlessmazin]

Abyssal Embrace

[spockvarietyhour]

CRT Monitors and Wireframe Graphics, Moonraker (1979)

[canmom]

i do think like if you're not immersed in graphics and thinking about all the data flowing around between different buffers and shit that's going on inside a frame, when you see a render of a shiny box reflecting on a wall, it's like. ok and? it's a box? but there's so much nuance to the way light floods through an environment. and so much ingenuity in finding out what we can fake and precompute and approximate, to get our imaginary space to have that same gorgeous feeling of 'everything reflects off everything else'.

light is just one example, but I think all the different systems of feedback interactions in the world are just so juicy. geology is full of them. rocks bouncing up isostatically as the glaciers flow off them. spreading ridges and stripes of magnetic polarity revealing themselves. earthquakes ringing across the world. clouds forming around mountain peaks, giving rise to forests and deserts. soil being shaped by erosion, directing future water into channels. biological evolution!! I turned away from earth sciences many years ago, to pursue maths and physics and later art and now computer programming, but all of these things link up and inform the thing I'm doing at the moment.

sometimes you try to directly recreate the underlying physics, sometimes you're just finding mathematical shapes that feel similar: fractal noise that can be evaluated in parallel, pushed through various functions, assigned materials, voxellised and marching cubesed and pushed onto the gpu, shaded and offset by textures, and in the end, it looks sorta like grass. an island that will be shaped further as the players get their hands on it.

it's all just a silly game about hamsters shooting missiles. and yet when you spend this long immersed in a project, so much reveals itself. nobody will probably ever think about these details as much as I have been. and yet I hope something of that comes across.

they say of the Bevy game engine that everyone's trying to make a voxel engine or tech demo instead of an actual game. but in a way, I love that. making your own personal voxel engine is a cool game, for you.

computers are for playing with

[digitalfossils]

[th3-0bjectivist]

“Synesthesia Supreme” - Animated painting

[emojibankrepository]

Computers!

Click here to download!

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