Ancient 4D

SCI_FI/EXPLORER.GIF

Beast Wars: Transformers

COMPART/PACMAN.GIF

Kitegirl, by M. Fisher. 1998.

Escape From Castle Claymount (2023)

Developed by ColorBomb.

ABSTRACT/TORUS.GIF

This issue is notable for an Atari BASIC program, written by Tom Hudson, that displays 3D graphics. Two years later, Hudson would release Cyber Studio CAD-3D for Atari ST, and a few years after that, it was reborn as 3D Studio for DOS, and finally, the ubiquitous 3DS MAX.

Thirty-two years ago today, Myst was released.
Happy Birthday, little guy!
🎂

Just stumbled upon this ancient PcPersective article on real-time ray tracing.. In 2008. :)
pcper.com/2008/06/ray-...
It details the story of nine students (Karim, Wussie, Rick, Jan, Rutger, Trevor, Mathijs, Roel, Wilco) who worked in various roles on CPU-ray traced games using the Arauna engine.

By William Munns (up-scaled)

Jade Cocoon: Story Of The Tamamayu ~ 玉繭物語 (1998)

Developed by Genki.

Goban and Wine, by David McLeish (2004)

YouTube video by Pixel Fondue Modo Open Source Wrap Up

Sad news.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=agjc...

I got tired of waiting for that, so I'm making this. Might take a while, but that's my goal.

Forest Temple, by Peardian

Puyo Puyo~n ~ ぷよぷよ〜ん (1999)

Developed by Compile.

50+ follows, hooray, welcome to my peculiar "but why?" project 🥳

This little project now has a Discord server. Mostly reposts of this account, project FAQ and retro CGI appreciation.
discord.gg/ysN7ZEWf

Lego Island (1997)

Developed by Mindscape.

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (1995)

Developed by Rare.

A cylinder with a slice cut out

Fixed the slice mode to support fillets. (Working in the command line and using modo to actually render it is really helping keep focus) - think my fancy cylinder generator is done

This little project now has a Discord server. Mostly reposts of this account, project FAQ and retro CGI appreciation.
discord.gg/ysN7ZEWf

A cylinder with a smooth top fillet.

A cylinder with a semi-smooth top chamfer. There's a hard seam between the chamfer at the top / side.

A cylinder with a semi-smooth top reverse fillet. There's a hard seam between the chamfer at the top / side.

Smooth fillets are done! - also semi-smooth chamfers and reverse-fillets where the top/side seams are sharp but things are smooth radially. #lowpoly

A cylinder with a fillet on the top edge. Faces are selected in orange from top, around the fillet and into the side. Vertex normals, in pink, are subtly visible and show unique normals per face.

A cylinder with a chamfer on the bottom edge. Faces are selected in orange from base, up around the chamfer and onto the side. Vertex normals, in pink, are subtly visible and show unique normals per face.

A cylinder with a reverse fillet on the top edge. Faces are selected in orange from top, around the fillet and into the side. Vertex normals, in pink, are subtly visible and show unique normals per face.

Hard vertex normals are now working for fillet/chamfer/reverse-fillet cylinder generation. Next up ... smooth normals. #lowpoly

A cylinder with a smooth filleted edge.

A cylinder with a reverese fillet, and indented quarter circle shape.

I added the 'fillet mode' and since I'm running the radius/Y position through a shaping function - accidentally got it backwards and now I've fallen into a rabbit hole of options 😄

A cylinder with segmented chamfered edges.

So, fillet is underway. I realise that actually you might want to have a segmented chamfer though. So I'll add an option to explicitly select fillet or chamfer, rather than my initial plan of making "segments = 1" imply a chamfer.

A 3D model of a cylinder with gaps at the top and bottom edges where a fillet or chamfer will be added.

Started working on adding filleted edge support to the cylinder. I want each primitive to be packed with features rather than needing tons of nodes / stacked modifiers to meet common requirements. #lowpoly

The main artificial limit that I thought would be useful for a retro aesthetic is to write a simpler ray tracer, rather than path tracing. Classic diffuse/spec materials, flat ambient instead of radiosity, etc. The stuff that modern software has discarded or is hidden behind wall of options.

I'm thinking about adding fillet to the cone / cylinder / tube / box though because coding that, knowing the specific shape you're filleting, actually would be pretty easy. Make these primitives super powered. (Also write a generic fillet modifier later too)