CompuServe Messages

>> That's why I felt bad for the coders of "Cosmic", one of the ASM'94 demos I downloaded. Evidently they were laughed at during the convention, judging from some of the comments they made in their credits section. This was due to the fact that their source material was videotape (this is obvious when you watch it). But still, they made the player, encode and decode the pixels, store all the images in the code, and do some sort of on-playback sharpening algorithm (you can see the image processing artifacts, which gives it a cool "computery" look). It had no polygon engines, no spinning pictures or "slimy" mutations. So what? I thought it was really cool, and I think it's the height of snobbery to call this "lame". Oh well, what do I know? << Basically the idea here is that .FLIs, .AVIs and their ilk are not welcome in the world of demos; the display is supposed to be calculated and generated "on-the-fly" in direct opposition to other types of animation. Although the technical feat of storing that animation in a file that size was quite impressive, it still seemed like a avi variant. Yes, there is a good deal of snobbery in the PC-scene, but somehow I don't think animation compression is all that emotively impressive a thing. I mean MPEG is very impressive, but there is no trying of new concepts or ideas, just better compression. Sorry if this message insults anyone's intelligence. I find myself talking down to people after a few hours of explaining to AOL members on the net what keeping on topic is 🙂