TERRA

A voxel landscape rendered using a plasma in a valid 480bytes Atari bootsector. TERRA ranked #2 at Outline 2006

Unfortunately I ran out of time and didn't manage to reach the visual fidelity of the JavaScript prototype. Yet, TERRA got good feedback on pouet.net and ranked #2 at Outline 2006. I guess I should revisit the idea of plasma-rendering.

Using a plasma - a colorful pattern made by changing the color multiple times per scanline - was very tempting as it is a very compact and stable way to render outside of the normal 320x200 screen resolution. This allowed to get a nice landscape feel to the intro. However it also means that each vertical slice of the voxel landscape is at least 12 pixels wide and a multiple of 4. In the case of TERRA, the vertical slices are 24 pixels wide.

Other recent experiments

There are many experiments and projects like TERRA to discover other here.

• FRONTFEST MOSCOW It was an honour to be invited to Fronfest Moscow 2017 with the little family to give my first workshop; implementing a Twin-stick shooter using ES6 and Canvas, and to continue my CODE🎙ART series of talks + live coding aiming to inspire new web developer artists. on November 18th, 2017
• VOLTRA VOLTRA: Grinding the Universe, a gritty JavaScript demo, winner of the 1024 bytes demo competition at the Assembly 2017. on August 6th, 2017
• BREATHING EARTH Another take on Nadieh Bremer mesmerizing Breathing Earth visualisation, running at 60fps on a 2D Canvas without libraries or frameworks. on June 26th, 2017
• DEMO REEL AND TINY JAVASCRIPT AT FRONT TRENDS I had the pleasure to speak about creating bite sized audio-visual demos, and LIVE code one at Front Trends 2016 in Warsaw, Poland. on May 19th, 2016
• THREAD JS Breaking the 64 bytes fronteer with the famous "10 print" maze generator. on December 16th, 2013
• COTTON CANDY First stab at webGL, in 1k between two nappy changes. It's glitchy and tiny but I quite like this puppy. It ranked #3 at DemoJS. on July 2nd, 2011
• MANDELBROT ROTOZOOM Many people did fractals renderers in Javasript in 256 bytes, but no one ever made one that zooms and rotate... until today. on September 1st, 2006
• NEJA My first JavaScript demo, presented at the Assembly 2005 where it ranked #4 on July 30th, 2005

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