Preserved Topic: New 404 lost page for OZONE! (Page 1 of 2)

http://www.ozones.com/abcd_UR_lost (or any other broken URL)

Wheee!!! I really like this one, it makes me happy (and a bit dizzy) just to look at it! I'm going to add a few server-side bits so I can track where you came from to get to that page, and make an easy email script so people can send me the broken page, and whatever else I can think of to help people on their way. But wheee!!! I love this toy, I figure I'll add some more functionality to it, and hopefully some additional optimization to make it not hog 99% of your CPU. (I haven't checked, but it simply *must* eat your CPU, mustn't it?) I also have some Mozilla tweaks to work on, but I couldn't wait to show this to you folks, it made me happy. :-)

(edit: Hmm, it only seems to eat about 55% of my CPU, how about yours?)

Your pal, -doc-



[This message has been edited by DocOzone (edited 04-14-2002).]

Doc!

You never cease to amaze!

Very cool!

Conal=-

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"If I had wanted your website to make noise, I would have licked my finger and rubbed it across my monitor."

Doc, that's too cool.

But, I think you need a little roadrunner zipping across the scene. Meep meep!

Conal! (Conal is a married guy now, whoot!) Oh, I miss hanging out with you. How's life, how's busines, how are *you*?

Wes, The original plan called for a sketch of me walking, walking, but then I found how hard it is to do an animation of a guy walking, heh. Malin wants a flying sacer to sip through, which I should be able to handle, I figure.

Your pal, -doc-

I feel the need to make coyote howling noises

Sweet!!!

. . : newThing

Yes... with Coyote driving an ACME truck behind him...

:P

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Rev. Gonzo - gonzo@musicscene.org
MusicScene.ORG - Support Your Local Scene!
"If I had wanted your website to make noise, I would have licked my finger and rubbed it across my monitor."

crazy! dhtml by doc rocks!

but honestly doc, just due to correctness you should specify anywhere on the page that it is a 404 http error.

edit: and it eats 60% of 1.3ghz on a maximized window.

[This message has been edited by GRUMBLE (edited 04-14-2002).]

Very cool.

Reminds me of the empty Wyoming landscape (I used to live there).

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tiki



[This message has been edited by tikigod (edited 04-14-2002).]

absolutely love it! That first layer really screws with my eyes. sweet!

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I love it. but it only uses 50% of my PIII

~We're not here for long, we're here for fun~

Nice job. I especially like the blur and reduced contrast as it gets further away.

50% CPU (Athlon XP 1800+), unless I stretch it across both monitors (you want dizzy?), then it pegs a solid 100%, slows some but remains smooth.

"the most incredible feats are often accomplished by
those who have had the most incredible challenges"

Sweet work, Doc. Love it!!

Welcome back, Gonzo!
I don't expect you to remember me, but you (or more to the poiny; your quote) are one of my first memories of the Asylum.



[This message has been edited by Nimraw (edited 04-14-2002).]

Very neat =)

Interestingly, if it's under around 800 pixels wide, it's very smooth, but there's a point where if my browser window is bigger, it slows down to about one frame per second. And there's no inbetween.

Maybe it's the point at which the images start repeating.

Its great. I like the colors. My Pentium4 1.6Ghz spiked to 24% then dropped down to 2% It takes a bite but doesnt sit down to gorge itself.

I had no problems full screen.



[This message has been edited by Osprey (edited 04-14-2002).]

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Yah, basically all I have is 4 transparent <img>'s next to each other, something like 763px wide. As soon as it gets to less than -763px, it adds 763px to the left coordinate. I could probably eliminate one of them and just use 3, but for those double monitor folks, I figure, what the hell? ;-) I find that if only a little bit of it is showing onscreen, it speeds up quite a bit and CPU usage drops, so all the burden must be screen re-draw I figure. My next step will add to the burden, as I want to start tracking mouse movements and affecting the behaviour based on that. According to old "Warner Bros." logic, the foreground should be the one moving fastest, but I mixed up my numbers at first and this counter-intuitive version was what I got, and it looked cooler to me! I figure I could use the up and down mouse movement to affect that bit, and the right and left for... the right and left. If I do my work properly, I should waste many productive hours for many people, whoot!
;-)

Your pal, -doc-

own

yeah do a docwalk doc...

Very sweet Doc - I've been wiating for this one

However, I need to point out that the movement is actually backwards - the foreground should move fastest and and the background slowest!

(dammit, DL beat me to it)

But that is assuming that the laws of physics in this world apply to the ones in the Land of Ozone. You never know.

. . : newThing

Great work... as usual

It took 80% on a celeron 600@900 running maximized on one screen. On two monitors it ate it all, but was running smoothly.



-= Veneficuz =-

"Faith: not wanting to know what is true. "- Friedrich Nietzsche

The words "OVER KILL" come to mind when I see that,

But I love it anyway.....

[edit] = It's ate 23% of my cpu, I think that's awesome!!![/edit]



[This message has been edited by Synthetic (edited 04-14-2002).]

Since the foreground moves opposite the background (at the time of this posting), it looks like you're rotating around a point somewhere in the distance, sorta.

Yep, I mentioned that bit about the counter-intuitive motion, backwards from how things are *supposed* to be, but really, it looks cooler this way. It hardly matter, because I'm just working on adjusting those values now, based on the Y position of the mouse, so it'll get even stranger I hope! (up will be the way physics says it should be, down'll be the way it is now.)

Your pal, -doc-

Oooh ! das tight how it works with da mouse! yah!

ooh... doc posted quicker!

70% max on an 800 p3 box.

[This message has been edited by eyezaer (edited 04-15-2002).]

The mouse bit rocks, Doc. Serious 404 page. hehe

Uses 100% cpu, and lags a little on my 450PIII, w/ 96 MB ram ( NN6.2)

<edit> Nice walking sequence, KromaZ</edit>


[This message has been edited by docilebob (edited 04-15-2002).]

Its very cool....the movement is buttery smooth. It took forever to load though; I am on DSL so its not my connection.

Eats 30% of my 1.2GHz with 512mb of RAM.

I dropped the refresh rate just a bit, bringing it down to 40% on my Celeron 850, minor tweaks make a big difference! I tried using varying speeds based on the mouse position, but it looks funny when you make it go slow. Now it just jerks back and forth depending on where you place things, I like it better this way. I'll have to start adding the actual useful stuff for a 404 page now, tracking where you came from when you get there, and writing it into a logfile. (Maybe add some useful links for people to go to from here, too?) All this for the 100 people a day who end up at broken or outdated links! I'm a geek.

Your pal, -doc-



[This message has been edited by DocOzone (edited 04-15-2002).]

hey doc - that's absolutely fantastic!
my only two suggestions are this:
1) have the speed of movement affected by the X/Y distance. i'm sure you know what i'm talking about.
2) separate the very rear layer into the mountains, and behind that, the sky.

doc, i still can't get over it. your pages keep me mesmerised for hours. it's marvellous - the 'normal' version looks like i'm travelling along on a road trip, and the 'wierd' version, it has this cool spinning feel to it.


thanks so much for sharing. (and go on, throw in a few of your little "m" birds! )

- - r e i t s m a - -
(tifkab)

Malin wants a flying saucer. I may add in a few different random layers that'd appear every now and then, just to keep people hanging around, heh.

Your pal, -doc-

Very cool Doc. Just curious as to what software you guys
are using to measure cpu, relative or absolute...i trust
it's not the totally unreliable crap that comes with winblows (i.e. sysmon etc.).


I have no problem with a p3 733/128meg and a geforce2 64 meg
great work.



[This message has been edited by ShootingStar (edited 04-15-2002).]

Hmm, actually, I am relying on that totally unreliable crap that comes with Windows, it serves pretty well as a benchmark, as long as everyone else is using it too! What do you use to test CPU usage?

Your pal, -doc-

40% on my Athlon 1Ghz, 512 Mb RAM, max using "unreliable crap" as my benchmark.

"I may add in a few different random layers that'd appear every now and then, just to keep people hanging around, heh."

So, not only do you want this to be the page people see when their lost you want to encourage them to stay lost. Hah! I love it.

How about a random signpost that pops up in the forground every once in awhile with messages like "Asylum 100 miles" or "Hand-on Tutorials 20 miles" that you could click on as links?

Schitzo

Hmmm. Hope i did not offend anyone with those remarks. I had a friend who actually
returned a brand new OEM PC because he was seeing high CPU usage without
any intensive processes running. The next machine did the same thing and he felt
very pretty silly...at the time i researched sysmon and found out it often gives
misleading (overstated) results...sorry.

what do i use....sisoft sandra is installed on my pc but i prefer to use my
own "patience" monitor...if it loads quickly i view it...if doesn't load quickly
i kill it...very quickly.....

same with flash or dhtml...........your page worked very well in my IE (did not in NS4)
and that's the only cpu test i need...ie. it's all or nothing

again, i hope i did not offend anyone with my comments, if so, it was unwittingly.
thanks

For relative benchmarking purposes
(nothing running in background)
win 98 se
average: 17 to 28 % (measurements taken minutes apart)

peak recorded at 44 (never observed it, will take sysmon's word for it)

love Schitzoboy's suggestion....can u stick an imagemap on a moving target??
or would it have to be other layers?

Doc - I had scanned your posts to see if you mentioned anything about the movement - seem to have missed where you actually did the 1st time through

It definately has a bit of a rotation feel to it...a little hypnotic


Ooh, hey - just noticed the mouse tracking...nifty. I can distort the laws of physics with a wave of my hand now

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