Laboratory output n°54 Math: LoopPump

MATH LoopPump
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I’m playing with the pixels and math again. I decided to try goofy with golden ratio in as3.

private var goldenratio:Number = 2 * Math.cos(Math.PI*.2);

And came up doing something that doesn’t use much of the power that value contains. Anyway this one is weird enough to be posted.
It loops from very stable state into very complex chaos.

value = 0.5 + 0.5 * Math.sin(time*.0001);
var t:Number = 10000 * Math.sin(time*.0000001);
var dx:Number, dy:Number, g:Number = 1, r:Number, radius:Number;

var l:int = 3600;
for(var i:int = 0; i < l; i++)
{
 g *= (1 + goldenratio * (.0011 + Math.sin(time*.003) * .0001));
 r = 60 + Math.sin(time*.001) * 40;
 radius = (g+r) * (1 + (Math.sin(i*radian* (2 + 2*Math.sin(time*.0001))) * value));

 dx = radius * Math.sin(radian*i + t);
 dy = radius * Math.cos(radian*i + t);
 bit.setPixel32(ws+dx, hs+dy, 0xFFe9dd8f);     
}

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Laboratory output n°53 evo3d TE6: Light

TE6 Light
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We have now light and support for shaders in evo3d.
The filesize is 13k. :) Need to get ridoff those white lines…

— Added 22.06.09 10:47 —
TE6 Light2
Here are the same stuff with 300 shaded meshes.

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Nokia murdered the WidSets

The main reason I chosen Nokia as my mobile (E71) was this little gadget WidSets. It was an excellent little apparatus that formatted the web into little widgets. I could easily use my favorite internet data only with few clicks. Stuff like Finnish news, Bus schedules, Wikipedia, Facebook, few internet magazines etc. I have used it something like 3 years about 3-5 times a day.

Few days ago the Corporate decided to close the whole service. It “evolved” into Nokia Ovi Store. What a mother lode of bullshit. Instead of using the service I can now buy some useless little apps. When things comes to marketing there’s one rule above all and that’s: “Do not lose the trust of a customer”. This is what exactly happened here. I don’t know how much the number of users was at this point but few years ago it was 5 million and now they simply killed the whole thing.

Nokia is the backbone of Finnish economics, but fuck’em. I’ll probably select iPhone for my next cellphone. The thrust trust is gone.

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EvoFlash heading to Assembly 2009

The biggest Demoscene party is approaching again. The Assembly is held 6.-9. of August.

Traditionally we have took a part on Flash compo, Browser compo or Real wild compo depending on what the organizers decide to call it (‘the compo that flashdemos should be post’).

EvoFlash has won those compos in three years in a row and we decided that it’s time to turn bar more higher. I personally think that the most appealing compo of all is the 64k and this year we are crazy enough to go for it!

At the moment we have a demoengine that is 4k 3.6k, 12k 3D engine and soundsynth+track in 20-30k.
So there’s still something like 20k for the actual demo. Let’s hope we can pull everything together and surprise the scene with our platform.

I’ll give all code (at least made by me) away after the compo.

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