(perhaps you've already seen it on my blog, if not, read on )

During christmas, I wrote a 3D opengl screensaver for fun. For years (1987-1996) I was participating in what's called the Demo scene, (Amiga 500 first, then PC, 2D/3D effects and music) you probably know of the graphical demos on the Amiga or PC.

The screensaver uses my C++ OpenGL library DemoGL, to schedule the effects in sync. Source provided. You need a decent videocard capable of doing OpenGL rendering (if you can run Quake it's ok).

Binary: http://www.xs4all.nl/~perseus/WeblogsSaver.zip (377KB) Source: http://www.xs4all.nl/~perseus/WeblogsSaverSource.zip (736KB, incl. textures and dlls). It's not that beautiful, and perhaps can be optimized here and there.

Screenshot:

Just in case you feel bored and want to hack some serious OpenGL this weekend

Dude, read a book, walk in the woods, get some sun. You do some strange things for fun!

Seriously, it is a very attractive screensaver.

swallace wrote:

Dude, read a book, walk in the woods, get some sun. You do some strange things for fun!

Seriously, it is a very attractive screensaver.

hehe

Sun? naah it's winter here (== rain and misery)

Thanks for the compliment

If you want to look at the demo which gave me the idea, check out: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=17

It's written in Java, using OpenGL, written by a friend of mine from Finland. Some other great things to look at: http://www.theproduct.de/ all 64KByte (that's 65,536 bytes!) intro's with complete 3D engines, music etc Made by Germans, these guys all work in the games industry now of course. They wrote a complete visual editor to create these demos, amazing.