Topic awaiting preservation: More insanity

Boy, I love these quickie half hour projects. Got the idea for this one from http://www.random.org/

http://www.rpi.edu/~laporj2/noise.html (refresh for a new image)

Nothing too fancy, though since XBM's are easier to manipulate than I thought, I may be using them more. However, I can;t seem to get this script to run in Opera... any ideas?

(Edited by Iron Wallaby on 05-29-2004 23:33)

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^^^what he said. i would love to see an animated one.

Iron Wallaby: It's great to see some people doing crazy stuffs like liliputian JavaScripts and other useless toys. I suppose you've had a look at noise by Milo VERMEULEN

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InI said:

Since you are using xbm's it should be possible.

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Oh, yes it's possible. My very first javascript raycaster ( done in late 2001 ) was in XBM [edit] actually I generated all the possible slices in XBM [/edit], so is Wolfenstein 5K by Lee SEMEL.



(Edited by poi on 05-30-2004 11:35)

Updated with animation, though I used a bit of a hack to make the image refresh each time... is there a better way to do it?

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently arcane magic is indistinguishable from technology." -- P. David Lebling

Looks great.
Can you add colors?

Kewl as. I had long ago given up trying to find an XBM equivelant for IE back when I was primarily using netscape4. Here is a resurrect script (or should I say totally rewritten as I lost my original version).

http://www.iinet.net.au/~htjs/mandelxbm.htm

Can you guess what it is? :-)

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Yossi Admon said:

Can you add colors?

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Afraid not. A limitation of the XBM image format is it's lack of color.

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Virbatem said:

Kewl as. I had long ago given up trying to find an XBM
equivelant for IE back when I was primarily using netscape4. Here is a
resurrect script (or should I say totally rewritten as I lost my
original version).

http://www.iinet.net.au/~htjs/mandelxbm.htm

Can you guess what it is? :-)

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Hahaha, awesome. I didn't get it to work in Firefox, though it ran without trouble in MSIE. Very sweet. Especially with the loader percentage.

(Edited by Iron Wallaby on 05-30-2004 22:12)

I've been working on colors. best I can do is 3.... still working.

Thanks for the comment. I figured the % counter would be beneficial. It allowed me to know how long until I had before it was necessary to look at the screen again. I was going blind with non centering problems....

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Virbatem said:

I've been working on colors. best I can do is 3.... still working.

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How do you manage that?

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently arcane magic is indistinguishable from technology." -- P. David Lebling

Whoo hooo! check it out! (do you think I cheated?)


http://www.iinet.net.au/~htjs/mandelxbm5clr.htm


and also check out this spot:


http://www.iinet.net.au/~htjs/mandelxbm5clr.htm?-0.8175+-0.0225+800


IE only though I am guessing...

Yes, you cheated. Nice use of MSIE effects. I wonder if there's a cross-browser way of doing similar, though.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently arcane magic is indistinguishable from technology." -- P. David Lebling

Cross Browser is like Cross Dressing: I do not do it.


Ok, my last one. It's 6:30am. Maybe I can get 2 hours sleep today.


http://www.iinet.net.au/~htjs/mandelxbm5clr400.htm


Bigger and slower but it's got dynamic resizing with respect to the winow size. Oh, and a nice little progress bar too.



(Edited by Virbatem on 05-31-2004 00:48)

http://archive.museophile.org/images/xbm/

the url says it all.


Not Enough Is Better Than Too Much

Hehehe, yay, more XBMS!

The new implementation of your Mandelbrot is pretty cool. I don't think XBM's are what you would want, though, since you want color and don't have animation of any kind. Why not document.write() a table of colored 1x1 cells instead? It would be faster to render and be cross browser (so I can play with it under Linux ).

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently arcane magic is indistinguishable from technology." -- P. David Lebling

I hate to say this, but unfortunately, I know nothng about XMBs
Can anyone suggest a good tutorial?
thanks

Wrayal

Go to kimber-ja.demon.co.uk and click on the link to the raytracer!

wrayal: Check http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/2d/XBM.txt and http://netghost.narod.ru/gff/graphics/summary/xbm.htm.