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/me likes a lot!

Though... I think it would probably be better without the wuPixels, actually. Mostly for speed reasons. I mean, the wuPixels one looks wonderful, but the amount of speed decrease doesn't seem worthwhile for realtime programs (especially for very high-scale ones, which you had better make! ).

Speaking of speed... my starsphere proggy is much faster now. I remembered that it isn't fast to find the exact same cosines and sines a few hundred times, so I moved them out of my loops, hehehe. Now, it runs at a surprisingly good rate. The entire problem with Javascript, speed-wise, is definitely the rendering. I can do tons of calculations with no loss of speed, but render another few hundred particles, and wham, speed is all gone.

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I'm seeing some slow-down with those wuPixels. Admittedly, I haven't got a monster machine (AMD XP 1800+, 512MB RAM, 128MB FX5600) but it usually handles itself pretty well.

I like the morphing! Exactly what I had in mind, and answers my animation question, too!

Have you had a look at correcting the blinking pixels in the first cube? It looks as though they are rising/falling through the transparency scale twice in each direction (Solid, fade to transparent, flash solid, fade to transparent, then reverse on the return journey).

As you can obviously apply colour/transparency to the starfield, would it slow things down to play around with colour-cycling throughout the field?

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InI said:

Hmmm.. yeah, the starshpere runs smoothly for me now..
http://www.rpi.edu/~laporj2/media/code/starsphere.html

congrats on that one as it isn't easy using javascript.
..and don't forget to switch to java

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Yup. I wonder if matrix math could make it faster.

I should probably learn matrix math nonetheless...

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

Matrix math is a notational mechanism to help the mathematician understand what is happening with a system of equations. Once you have solved the system and want to use the solution in a computer, the computer has to performa all the calculations inside the matrix as if they were being solved one equation at a time. While I like Matrix Algebra and think it us a useful tool for anyone who works with mathematical systems to learn, I don't think that using Matrix Algebra will speed up a computer program.

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I'm running off the basis that I've read (somewhere... long ago...) that it can reduce the rotational math from 12 multiplies per vertex to 9. At least, in principle. I realize it's basically a complex modification of the equations... but I still want to learn the "why's" and "how's" behind the "what's".

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(Edited by Iron Wallaby on 07-28-2004 21:20)

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Aha! *read*

I did try implementing the 9 mul rotation in my renderer, but it didn't make really any difference. I suppose this is because the bottleneck is in the rendering; and so by the time the algorithm is enough of an improvement to make a difference, you wouldn't be able to tell since it is rendering so slowly.

I do have a newer version; fixed a rotation bug, changed the object creation parameters, and I'm also thinking of adding in ways to dynamically deform objects. Havn't uploaded it yet though... in a bit.

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(Edited by Iron Wallaby on 07-28-2004 23:08)

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Now that is slick.

w00t.

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Have you tried Processing yet? I think you'd be a natural at it - plus they could totally benefit from your java coding expertise:

http://processing.org/

look at all the neatness at
http://processing.org/exhibition/index.cgi

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