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Crystal Planet

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:15 am
by y offs et
It calls them all, this jewel in the great darkness, shining in all wavelengths.

They approach slowly, mesmerized by her beauty, flying their crafts around her. Again and again they search in vain for some sort of landing zone, some place to get out and stretch their imagination with this wonder. Closer and closer, until they realize ... there is no substance, no hard terra, ... only light.

So, ... eventually they venture inward. What wonder! The surface only hints at what lies within. In every direction, with every turn a new vista presents itself.

Time passes unnoticed with the awe. A few, the pragmatic ones, eventually break the spell and flee her siren embrace, orbiting beacons once they are free, warning their fellows of the trap below. The rest, the romantics, the sentimental, are blissfully doomed to forever cruise her interior ... searching ... towards the light ... the light ....

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 6:23 pm
by Valerious
Image

Fly pixels=) Is this a bug?)

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 7:15 pm
by y offs et
:) Ha! Someone actually interested in my foolin' around.

Don't know how that happened - I can't repeat it - maybe it's your video card.

I was just following an idea, and after numerous twists and turns I stumbled onto the cool interaction effects of coloured sphere meshes. So I invented a storyline.

Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 1:25 am
by jph_wacheski
Didn't know you was a poet,. neat mess of polys!

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 1:02 am
by panurge
wow!

the overall effect is very trippy...
my suggestion is: enabling a "slow forward movement", in order to allow the player to fully enjoy the geometric variations. With the current speed, when entering the crystal things change too fast, imho.

I also found some lonely pixels.

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 1:55 am
by y offs et
Well!... interest. :)
Here. Try this screensaver.

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:19 am
by panurge
:)

Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 4:26 am
by y offs et
screensaver updated.

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 4:48 pm
by y offs et
New screensaver. Seems more interesting patterns and more vibrant colors.

Who knows? There's a million ways to tweak this thing. :?

Stay tuned.

P.S. - Noobie - this goes in windows / system 32 folder ... and set it as your default screensaver.