anotherronism

A simple BASIC loop/ He was using half-blocks as his stripes. I just wrote a little loop to switch the halves then repeat. So simple yet so, so effective at the time.

I later had a friend who managed a ComputerWorld store (long defunct) amd he would host totally inappropriate parties in his store (in the mall) after hours.

One night I "discovered" a Compaq "luggable" with EGA graphics (My Gawd!) and the GW-BASIC manual in the drawer below it introduced a new command called Palette - I'll never forget that one either. A little trig and a little cleverness later and I had a wire-frame ball filling the screen and rolling into the viewers perspective. Another slight-of-hand but very, very cool and well received at the time

Qsilv

...wire-frame?! Ron, no one uses that term anymore!
(suspicious look) I'll bet you even know about... c o r e d u m p s ....? ; >
and teapots and reflections...
nitrogen-cooled Crays doing early transparency...
('k, I'll stop now, before this gets shifted into "these are a few of my favorite things"...)

(but I always wanted to make it rain inside the monitor...)

anotherronism

I don't know coredumps per se but I do know about Core Dumps! ha!

I spent two days beta-testing Windows 2.1 (those numbers are NOT a mistake!)

I was introduced to ray-tracing early on. I cannot remember the program name but it was related to a popular CAD program in the day and was very, very expensive. Years later I discovoverd POV-Ray and occasionally use it to this day to do titling effects in videos.

I wish I were contemporary on this stuff. Soft-Shadows was always, always what I wanted and if they had been available "back then" I'd probably be working for Pixar today.

Luxor, Jr. might be one of the greatest pieces of art created by the human race - not for it's art - which is plentiful - but for it's representation of the culmination of so, so many areas of expertise all distilled into a single piece of art.

On a brief aside - I currently beleive, fervently, that the internet itself, along with the participation of so great a percentage of the populace, along with it's content - IS the greatest acheivment of mankind!

But we have strayed far afeild and this could go on for hours and requires many, many accompanying beverages