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Contestant Number: 121
Type: Screensaver
Short Description: Screen Saver and Blob Screen Toaster Demos
Author: Sérgio Duarte <smd@di.fct.unl.pt>
API: Glide
Rush Compatible: Unknown
NT4 Compatible: Yes
Source Available: Soon! (http://www.mindspring.com/~jdrobin)
Notes: Rename to .scr for screensaver.
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1) Name
Cosmos-1
Screen Saver
&
Blob
Screen Toaster
(demos)
2) Description
-1
Cosmos Screen Saver and Blob Screen Toaster Demos
3) Abstract
This program consists of two demos of embryonic screen savers. Blob Screen
Toaster features real-time tessellation (geometry generation) of a changing
blob, rendered with dynamic Phong shading and environment mapping.
Cosmos-1 shows real-time animation of a system of interacting particles,
modeling a toy cosmos with some special effects.
4) Authors
Sérgio Duarte <smd@di.fct.unl.pt>
Fernando Birra <fpb@di.fct.unl.pt>
5)
This program was submitted to the second programming contest promoted by
Operation 3DFX (www.op3dfx.com), corresponding to entry #121.
6) Distribution
This demo program is freely distributable by 3Dfx Inc. and All Games Network Inc.
Third party distribution requires written permission by the authors.
Copyright of this program remains with the authors.
7) Bugs/Compatibility
The program requires a 3DFX Voodoo Graphics card and had been successfully tested
with a Righteous 3D and a Monster 3D, on both Windows 95 and Windows NT.
Voodoo Rush compatibility was not tested for and is unknown.
8) Additional Information.
The program was tested on a Pentium 166 MMX and a Pentium 233MHZ. CPU speed has a
noticeable positive effect on frame rate (lower left counter) on Blob. Blob gets
to around 20 frames/sec with the 166MHZ and reaches around 30 with the 233 MHz.
The Cosmos-1 demo stays mostly at 30 frames/sec. To get more you have to disable
vsync by hand, however some internal timings are designed for 30 frames/sec. Cosmos-1
get a while to warm up. Please take notice that every 60 seconds, give or take a few
seconds explodes a supernova...
9) It is possible that, in the future, this program will be further updated.
To check for the most recent version please try one these links:
http://asc.di.fct.unl.pt/~smd/BlobCosmos/blobcosmos.zip
or
http://www-ctp.di.fct.unl.pt/~fpb/BlobCosmos/blobcosmos.zip
Have fun,
--Sérgio Duarte
--Fernando Birra