MISC/CRYPT.GIF

LOGOS/DRIP02.GIF

ABSTRACT/TORUSMAN.GIF

Morning Job, by Gabriel Auger

computer graphics (1998) web.archive.org/web/19981203...

RAYTRACE/I6A.GIF

Jade Cocoon: Story Of The Tamamayu ~ 玉繭物語 (1998) Developed by Genki.

SCI_FI/EXPLORER.GIF

Beast Wars: Transformers

COMPART/PACMAN.GIF

Kitegirl, by M. Fisher. 1998.

Escape From Castle Claymount (2023) Developed by ColorBomb.

ABSTRACT/TORUS.GIF

This issue is notable for an Atari BASIC program, written by Tom Hudson, that displays 3D graphics. Two years later, Hudson would release Cyber Studio CAD-3D for Atari ST, and a few years after that, it was reborn as 3D Studio for DOS, and finally, the ubiquitous 3DS MAX.

Thirty-two years ago today, Myst was released. Happy Birthday, little guy! 🎂

Just stumbled upon this ancient PcPersective article on real-time ray tracing.. In 2008. :) pcper.com/2008/06/ray-... It details the story of nine students (Karim, Wussie, Rick, Jan, Rutger, Trevor, Mathijs, Roel, Wilco) who worked in various roles on CPU-ray traced games using the Arauna engine.

By William Munns (up-scaled)

Jade Cocoon: Story Of The Tamamayu ~ 玉繭物語 (1998) Developed by Genki.

Goban and Wine, by David McLeish (2004)

Sad news. www.youtube.com/watch?v=agjc...

Forest Temple, by Peardian

Puyo Puyo~n ~ ぷよぷよ〜ん (1999) Developed by Compile.

50+ follows, hooray, welcome to my peculiar "but why?" project 🥳

This little project now has a Discord server. Mostly reposts of this account, project FAQ and retro CGI appreciation. discord.gg/ysN7ZEWf

Lego Island (1997) Developed by Mindscape.

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (1995) Developed by Rare.

This little project now has a Discord server. Mostly reposts of this account, project FAQ and retro CGI appreciation. discord.gg/ysN7ZEWf

Smooth fillets are done! - also semi-smooth chamfers and reverse-fillets where the top/side seams are sharp but things are smooth radially. #lowpoly

Hard vertex normals are now working for fillet/chamfer/reverse-fillet cylinder generation. Next up ... smooth normals. #lowpoly

Started working on adding filleted edge support to the cylinder. I want each primitive to be packed with features rather than needing tons of nodes / stacked modifiers to meet common requirements. #lowpoly

Added (and documented!) a new procedural Tube primitive to the growing roster. #lowpoly

Trying not to repeat mistakes of the past and go off and only do code - I've made a start on some documentation !

By Tishk Barzanji

Rendezvous with an EGG 1-62, by Roland Dirler (2000)

Pretty happy with the smooth mode for my cone generating program (which I then load as an .obj into modo). Ended up being a lot simpler when I decided to only make the 'collar' of the cone smooth and keep everything else flat. #lowpoly

How it started ...

Current status. There is no UI. I wrote a command line tool that generates primitive shapes. Currently a box, plane, cone and cylinder. Definitely early days !

I'm working a new old-fashioned low poly 3D modelling (direct and procedural), animation (4D!) and rendering (Gouraud + Phong) software with a focus on #lowpoly and #retrocgi I'm calling it ... " Ancient 4D " ... it might take a while. Follow along to watch it grow !