THIS% IS% THE% RESULT% OF TWO YEARS OF SACRIFICES, I THINK ONLY CODERS WILL KNOW OF THEIR SIZES. DESPITE THIS FACT I% KNOW% THERE% WILL% BE, PEOPLE% WITH% BAD% MORAL WHO WILL BECOME GREEDY. -%HEADX CREDITS: CODE: HEADX MUSIC,SFX: MR.MAN GRAPHICS: ARCHMAGE FAIRFAX AND QUEST RAYTRACING: VIEW AD ASTRA AD INFINITUM AD ASTRA AD INFINITUM YOU HAVE NOW REACHED THE LAST PART OF - SEQUENTIAL - AN ANDROMEDA PRODUCTION IN 1994. RELEASED AT "THE GATHERING '94" IN NORWAY. COMPLETE CREDITS: CODING, MATHEMATICS AND IDEAS BY - HEADX - MUSIC COMPOSED BY - MR.MAN - GRAPHICS PAINTED BY - ARCHMAGE - - FAIRFAX - - QUEST - RAYTRACING BY - VIEW - ADDITIONAL CREDITS: TRACKLOADER CODED BY - DR.JEKYLL - VECTOR-EXPLOSION AND DELTAPLAYER CODED BY - MR.HYDE - ADDITIONAL GRAPHICS BY - DECKER - DESIGN ASSISTANCE BY - INTERPHACE - END PICTURE BY - FAIRFAX - INTERNAL CHANGES: THE MAIN CHANGED HIS HANDLE TO VIEW. LORD INTERFACE CHANGED TO INTERPHACE. CURRENT MEMBERS OF ANDROMEDA ARE: ANDY ARCHMAGE DECKER DR.JEKYLL FAIRFAX HEADX HYDRA INTERPHACE JAZ MCS MR.MAN MR.HYDE QUEST VIEW WILLIAM WOOD WE GREET ALL OUR FRIENDS. THE ESSENTIAL ROUTINES: JELLY-LETTERS: I MODELLED THESE ONES AS ELASTIC SPRINGS, ASSIGNING AN APPROPRIATE SPRING CONSTANT TO THE SYSTEM. I ALSO USED THE FACT THAT THE TOTAL AREA OF EACH LETTER SHOULD BE CONSTANT DURING THEIR BOUNCES. NOTICE THAT THE LETTERS BOUNCE INDEPENDENTLY! ROLLER-COASTER: THE TRACK CONSISTS OF DIFFERENT SEGMENTS JOINED TOGETHER (LOOP, SPIN ETC.). I USED PARAMETRIC CURVES IN GENERATING THE DIFFERENT SEGMENTS. THERE IS NO FRICTION IN THIS ENVIRONMENT, BUT THERE IS GRAVITY. NOTICE THAT THE ROUTINE IS RUNNING ON A FULL SCREEN IN 4 COLOURS UPDATED EVERY VERTICAL BLANK! CREDITS-PART: THE THORUS CONSISTS OF 512 SURFACES AND THE NICE BACKGROUND IS CALCULATED! MAGNET-PART: THE MAGNET IS JUST 22 SURFACES IN 4 BPLS. BUT COMBINING IT WITH THE BALLS, WHICH ARE "ATTRACTED" TO IT, IS A SMALL, BUT ANYHOW NOTICABLE ENHANCEMENT TO THE GENERAL VECTORROUTINE. MIRROR-PART: THIS ROUTINE IS RUNNING AT 50 HZ! I USE 3.3 BITPLANES AND MY SPECIAL ROTATIONROUTINE, 5 MULS EACH POINT AND NO PRECALCULATIONS! NOTICE THAT THIS IS NO PLAYFIELD-EFFECT, THE FOUR MIRRORING CUBES ARE CALCULATED! GROWING-TREE-PART: I MODELLED THE MOVEMENTS OF THE TREE IN THE THE WIND AS A LINEAR COMBINATION OF A QUADRATIC AND EXPONETIAL FUNCTION DECIDING THE ROTATION ANGLE. SWIMMER-PART: NOTHING SPECIAL ONCE ONE IS FAMILIAR WITH TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS. I TRIED TO GIVE LIFE TO THIS OBJECT. DID I SUCCEED? BOX-SCROLL: I JUST HAD TO MAKE A DIFFERENT TYPE OF SCROLLER. I ENDED UP WITH THIS ONE. 3D-MORPHER: IN THIS ROUTINE THE OBJECTS ARE TRANSFORMING WHILE ROTATING, RESULTING IN A SMOOTH MORPH. I DISCRETISIZED EACH LINE INTO POINTS AND TRANSFORMED AND ROTATED THEM AS3D-OBJECTS. LIGHTNING SPHERE: I MODELLED THE "RANDOM" MOVEMENTS AS A LINEAR COMBINATION OF TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS EACH LIGHT CONSISTED OF MANY LINE SEGMENTS JOINED TOGETHER. THEN THEY WERE TREATED AS ORDINARY 3D-OBJECTS. I THINK THIS WILL COVER THE ESSENTIAL ROUTINES OF THIS DEMONSTRATION. FOR MORE DETAILED INFO, MAKE CONTACT. I WILL THANK ALL THE MEMBERS OF OUR TEAM, AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE INVOLVED IN THIS PROJECT, FOR THEIR EXTREME PATIENCE AND SUPPORT: ALL GOOD THINGS TO THOSE WHO WAIT. A VERY SPECIAL THANKS MUST GO TO MR.MAN FOR MAKING THREE TUNES FOR THIS DEMO WITH PACKED LENGTH LESS THAN 140 KB (!). I WILL ALSO THANK STEINAR NYGAARD, TERJE LEIRA, JARDAR LEIRA AND MARIUS KINTEL FOR THEIR SUPPORT. THIS IS PROBABLY THE LAST PRODUCTION FROM OUR TEAM, DEVELOPED ON AN A500. IF SOME PARTS OF THE DEMO LOOK CORRUPTED, THAT IS PROBABLY BECAUSE YOU HAVE LARGE CACHE MEMORY. THIS WILL CAUSE MEMORY INCONSISTENCY, RESULTING IN VISUAL ERRORS. YOU SHOULD TRY DISABLING YOUR CACHES TO GAIN A BETTER RESULT. YOU MAY CONTACT ME (HEADX) AT: TERJE THOBERG STUDENTBY 0-14N-7016 TRONDHEIM NORWAY FOR SWAPPING PLEASE CONTACT: ROAR ODDENESVOKTERVEIEN 24N-3218 SANDEFJORD NORWAY AND NOW FOR SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT: - THE SEX LIFE OF AN ELECTRON - ONE NIGHT, WHEN HIS CHARGE WAS PRETTY HIGH, MICRO FARAD DECIDED TO SEEK OUT A CUTE LITTLE COIL TO LET HIM DISCHARGE. HE PICKED UP MILLIE AMP AND TOOK HER FOR A RIDE ON HIS MEGACYCLE. THEY RODE ACROSS THE WHEATSTONE BRIDGE, AROUND THE SINE WAVE, AND STOPPED IN THE MAGNETIC FIELD, BY A FLOWING CURRENT. MICRO FARAD, ATTRACTED BY MILLIE AMP'S CHARACTERISTIC CURVES, SOON HAD HER FULLY CHARGED AND EXCITED. HER RESISTANCE WAS AT A MINIMUM. HE LAID HER ON THE GROUND POTENTIAL, RAISED HER FREQUENCY AND LOWERED HER RESISTANCE. HE PULLED OUT HIS HIGH VOLTAGE PROBE AND INSERTED IT INTO HER SOCKET, CONNECTING THEM IN PARALELL, AND BEGAN SHORT CIRCUITING HER RESISTANCE SHUNT. FULLY EXCITED MILLIE AMP MUMBLED "OHM OHM OHM." WITH HIS TUBE OPERATING AT A MAXIMUM, AND HER FIELD VIBRATING WITH HIS CURRENT FLOW, IT CAUSED HER SHUNT TO OVERHEAT, AND MICRO FARAD WAS DRAINED OF EVERY ELECTRON. THEY FLUXED ALL NIGHT, TRYING VARIOUS CONNECTIONS AND SOCKETS, UNTIL HIS MAGNET HAD A SOFT CORE AND LOST ALL ITS FIELD STRENGHT. WITH HIS BATTERY FULLY DISCHARGED, MILLIE AMP WAS UNABLE TO EXCITE MICRO FARAD'S FIELD, SO SHE TRIED SELF-INDUCTION AND DAMAGED HER SOLENOIDS. AFTERWARDS THEY SPENT THE REST OF THE NIGHT REVERSING POLARITY AND BLOWING EACH OTHERS FUSE. - THE END -