Ah metaballs, flashback to The Gathering '97 when it was just becoming all the rage in the demo scene. The intro gene[1] by Fudge was the first time I saw it.
As a novice programmer I had just managed to implement my first triangle rasterizer, more or less on my own, and was blown away when I saw gene.
Shout out to echo (the programmer in Fudge), really cool dude who took a lot of time out of his busy party schedule getting their two prods ready to explained a lot of things to me. I had no IRL friends who knew programming, so the one on one was really invaluable.
Ah, this is amazing thank you. I had dug and dug for some demoscene examples for the video. It turned out to be quite difficult to find many of these sources, especially the early Japanese stuff.
Despite having recently done a video on The Connection Machine, the Links-1 was new to me – and I basically did a double take to learn that they had this parallel ray-tracing super computer back then. Sadly, there's not a ton of documentation beyond a couple of brief papers.
Thanks for watching!
magicalhippo•1h ago
Another example I recall off-hand is Jizz[1] from TBL from the same year, though I found it later. Sports a smashing goa trance soundtrack.
magicalhippo•1h ago
As a novice programmer I had just managed to implement my first triangle rasterizer, more or less on my own, and was blown away when I saw gene.
Shout out to echo (the programmer in Fudge), really cool dude who took a lot of time out of his busy party schedule getting their two prods ready to explained a lot of things to me. I had no IRL friends who knew programming, so the one on one was really invaluable.
[1]: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=911
gdubs•1h ago
Despite having recently done a video on The Connection Machine, the Links-1 was new to me – and I basically did a double take to learn that they had this parallel ray-tracing super computer back then. Sadly, there's not a ton of documentation beyond a couple of brief papers.
Thanks for watching!
magicalhippo•1h ago
[1]: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=2