The Amiga comes to HTML5
Do you know what colour cycling is? No, you don't because you're either too young or you didn't pay attention at the time. I barely remembered it when I stumbled upon this thing on metafilter:
[Colour cycling] was a technology often used in 8-bit video games of the era, to achieve interesting visual effects by cycling (shifting) the color palette. Back then video cards could only render 256 colors at a time, so a palette of selected colors was used. But the programmer could change this palette at will, and all the onscreen colors would instantly change to match. It was fast, and took virtually no memory. Thus began the era of color cycling.
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This demo is an implementation of a full 8-bit color cycling engine, rendered into an HTML5 Canvas in real-time. I am using 35 of Mark's original 640x480 pixel masterpieces which you can explore, and I added some ambient environmental soundtracks to match. Please enjoy, and the source code is free for you to use in your own projects (download links at the bottom of the article).
This guy ported an old demoscene/environment artist trick to the latest HTML standard. Go look at here.
Seriously, check it out. I cannot replicate it here. The effect is awesome. Check out "Aquarius"!
[Colour cycling] was a technology often used in 8-bit video games of the era, to achieve interesting visual effects by cycling (shifting) the color palette. Back then video cards could only render 256 colors at a time, so a palette of selected colors was used. But the programmer could change this palette at will, and all the onscreen colors would instantly change to match. It was fast, and took virtually no memory. Thus began the era of color cycling.
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This demo is an implementation of a full 8-bit color cycling engine, rendered into an HTML5 Canvas in real-time. I am using 35 of Mark's original 640x480 pixel masterpieces which you can explore, and I added some ambient environmental soundtracks to match. Please enjoy, and the source code is free for you to use in your own projects (download links at the bottom of the article).
This guy ported an old demoscene/environment artist trick to the latest HTML standard. Go look at here.
Seriously, check it out. I cannot replicate it here. The effect is awesome. Check out "Aquarius"!