2007-07-30, 06:21
Hi everyone,
We haven't had much in the way of new screensavers in a while and I've been working fairly secretly these past few months to fix that.
The latest t3ch include 3 new screensavers (and one additional variant).
Asterwave
In particular I think AsterWave may become popular. This is the result of that liquid screensaver craze7 found on youtube.
Asterwave is a field of liquid that deforms realistically to changes in height using actual physics equations. This code is adapted from a project I did for a graphics course in 2000. In beta testing this has garnered a lot of praise and I hope for it to replace cpBlobs as the most popular screensaver.
There are 2 variants for this one and textures can be easily added.
BioGenesis
BioGenesis is an implementation of John Conway's famous "Game of Life" with 3 custom coloring rules. A few basic rules govern which cells will live in the next generation depending on the cells current state and the number of its live neighbors. After initially seeding with random noise, complex structures will soon develop as the system evolves.
CrystalMorph
CrystalMorph is a 3D fractal that smoothly morphs between various shapes and configurations. A fractal's shape is defined by a set of transformations and (for a true fractal) the entire shape is repeated infinite times within it. Of course since the xbox doesn't have infinite memory, the rendering bottoms out after about 5 recursions.
Here's a link to my site where I give a writeup of each of the new screensavers.
http://asteron.projects.googlepages.com/screensavers
Be sure to check out my site for more information and feel free to leave comments and criticisms here!
Thanks!
-Asteron
We haven't had much in the way of new screensavers in a while and I've been working fairly secretly these past few months to fix that.
The latest t3ch include 3 new screensavers (and one additional variant).
Asterwave
In particular I think AsterWave may become popular. This is the result of that liquid screensaver craze7 found on youtube.
Asterwave is a field of liquid that deforms realistically to changes in height using actual physics equations. This code is adapted from a project I did for a graphics course in 2000. In beta testing this has garnered a lot of praise and I hope for it to replace cpBlobs as the most popular screensaver.
There are 2 variants for this one and textures can be easily added.
BioGenesis
BioGenesis is an implementation of John Conway's famous "Game of Life" with 3 custom coloring rules. A few basic rules govern which cells will live in the next generation depending on the cells current state and the number of its live neighbors. After initially seeding with random noise, complex structures will soon develop as the system evolves.
CrystalMorph
CrystalMorph is a 3D fractal that smoothly morphs between various shapes and configurations. A fractal's shape is defined by a set of transformations and (for a true fractal) the entire shape is repeated infinite times within it. Of course since the xbox doesn't have infinite memory, the rendering bottoms out after about 5 recursions.
Here's a link to my site where I give a writeup of each of the new screensavers.
http://asteron.projects.googlepages.com/screensavers
Be sure to check out my site for more information and feel free to leave comments and criticisms here!
Thanks!
-Asteron