--- Soren Renner <srenner@mail.ru> wrote:

For all the loyal raytracing fans out there:

http://www.bluebottle.ethz.ch/contributions/sr/sr012705Ray.Arc

Yes, it is another exciting demo. -- Oberon@lists.inf.ethz.ch mailing list for ETH Oberon and related systems https://www.mail.inf.ethz.ch/lists/listinfo/oberon

Soren, this is by far the best demo you've released, and possibly the best Oberon 3-D demo I've seen! I can get 5 fps in normal mode and 12 fps in foveated mode. The mirrored spheres are impressive, and having a "Life" sim running in the tiles is a nice touch. I've been thinking more (and experimenting with) doing a "stand along" Windows version and I think it's possible. I'll let you know more as I go along. Also this demo gave me an idea of a game that could be built off of it. There was an Atari game in the 80s called "BallBlaster". It featured two hovercraft riding on a 3D plane playing a version of 1 on 1 soccer. (See: http://www.langston.com/LFGames/) And updated raytraced version could be a hit among "retro" gamers. Regards, John M. Drake __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo