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Eye Candy Contest

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Marc PERTRON

Hi,

I'd like to show to some people that FreePascal can do good graphical and efficient things :o)
So I organise an eye candy contest, with some simple rules, and I'll give three rewards ($150, $100 and $50) for the three best programs.

The rules :
-The end of the contest is December 15th (i may change the date if it shows to be way too short)
-The source code of the program (and used pictures + ressources) will be posted on Internet under the GPL, so be sure of what you use

-The program MUST : *Compile and work in fullscreen mode under Ubuntu 6.10 (i386), in at least 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768 with Gnome or KDE *Be readable (the will be used as a tutorial for graphics with FP)

-The program COULD :
*Also compile under Win32 and/or MacOS (not necessary but will be good to show how powerful FPC is)
*Support some options : printing the FPS, a max FPS limit, or the use of a "bpm" global (to synchronise it with music)
*Be used as a screensaver in Linux

You can use anything you want : GLScene, Jedi-SDL, etc... The test machine will be an Athlon 64 3800+, 1Go DDR, Geforce 7900GTO with nvidia proprietary drivers.

What is an eye candy ?
http://rss-glx.sourceforge.net/screenshots.shtml
These are Eye-Candy ScreenSavers ;)

Ask if you had questions !

Marc

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Michael Van Canneyt
to Marc PERTRON
Marc PERTRON wrote 6 lines
Hi, I'd like to show to some people that FreePascal can do good graphical and efficient things :o) So I organise an eye candy contest, with some simple rules, and I'll give three rewards ($150, $100 and $50) for the three best programs.

Independent of this, you may want to show your 'people':

http://www.freepascal.org/gallery.html

There are some very nifty graphics programs. Pixel32 for instance. Voxel. Or the games. Probably the pascal game development site has also some nice screenshots.

Michael.

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Marc PERTRON
to Michael Van Canneyt
Michael Van Canneyt wrote 8 lines
Independent of this, you may want to show your 'people': http://www.freepascal.org/gallery.html There are some very nifty graphics programs. Pixel32 for instance. Voxel. Or the games. Probably the pascal game development site has also some nice screenshots.

The usual answer is 'yes but you can do that with VB too'. I don't want people to compare VB and FP, but to see that FP is as good as C for heavy things ;o)
And an eye-candy is one of the best examples :)

Marc

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Michael Van Canneyt
to Marc PERTRON: The usual answer is 'yes but you can do that with VB too'. I don't want people to compare…
Marc PERTRON wrote 13 lines
Michael Van Canneyt a écrit : > > Independent of this, you may want to show your 'people': > > http://www.freepascal.org/gallery.html > > There are some very nifty graphics programs. Pixel32 for instance. Voxel. > Or the games. Probably the pascal game development site has also some nice > screenshots. The usual answer is 'yes but you can do that with VB too'. I don't want people to compare VB and FP, but to see that FP is as good as C for heavy things ;o) And an eye-candy is one of the best examples :)

Sure, but look at the lone wolf 3 site in the gallery. Try that with VB ;-) Same with Pixel32, because it runs cross-platform. Try that with VB ;-)

Anyway, I absolutely approve of your eye-candy contest. I was just pointing out some additional arguments... :-)

Michael.

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Marc Weustink
to Michael Van Canneyt: Independent of this, you may want to show your 'people':…
Michael Van Canneyt wrote 13 lines
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Marc PERTRON wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to show to some people that FreePascal can do good graphical and > efficient things :o) > So I organise an eye candy contest, with some simple rules, and I'll give > three rewards ($150, $100 and $50) for the three best programs. Independent of this, you may want to show your 'people': http://www.freepascal.org/gallery.html

Ehm.... how to get there from the main site (and shouldn't lazarus be there as well) ?

Marc

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Michael Van Canneyt
to Marc Weustink
Marc Weustink wrote 17 lines
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Marc PERTRON wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to show to some people that FreePascal can do good graphical and >> efficient things :o) >> So I organise an eye candy contest, with some simple rules, and I'll give >> three rewards ($150, $100 and $50) for the three best programs. > > Independent of this, you may want to show your 'people': > > http://www.freepascal.org/gallery.html Ehm.... how to get there from the main site (and shouldn't lazarus be there as well) ?

During the construction of the page, the page was not reachable. I have already raised this issue on the core list.

Michael.

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Neil Graham
to Marc PERTRON: I'd like to show to some people that FreePascal can do good graphical and efficient…
Marc PERTRON wrote
The rules : -The program MUST : *Compile and work in fullscreen mode under Ubuntu 6.10 (i386), in at least 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768 with Gnome or KDE

I'd recommend saying fullscreen in at least 640x480, 800x600 _OR_ 1024x768.

If you are using 3d style rendering then resolution changes are not much of an issue. But if you are going for 2d and bitmap effects, often the best results come
from designing for a particular resolution. When it comes down to it, the actual numbers of the resolution are nott that important. It's how it looks that matters.

Maybe this'll even get me off my butt enough to tidy up my libs enough for a release.

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Marc PERTRON
to Neil Graham
Neil Graham wrote 10 lines
I'd recommend saying fullscreen in at least 640x480, 800x600 _OR_ 1024x768. If you are using 3d style rendering then resolution changes are not much of an issue. But if you are going for 2d and bitmap effects, often the best results come from designing for a particular resolution. When it comes down to it, the actual numbers of the resolution are nott that important. It's how it looks that matters.

If you design for a particular resolution, then you can change the scale. Even a 640x480 upscaled to 1024*768 is ok to me, or a perfect anim in 1024*768 that is far less pretty in 640*480. I just ask at least 3 settings ;o) (I'd to print them on some displays that support only one of the three)

Maybe this'll even get me off my butt enough to tidy up my libs enough for a release.

This is one of the goal of the contest... ;o)

Marc

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Steve Williams
to Marc PERTRON
Marc PERTRON wrote 18 lines
Neil Graham a écrit : > I'd recommend saying fullscreen in at least 640x480, 800x600 _OR_ > 1024x768. > > If you are using 3d style rendering then resolution changes are not > much of an issue. But if you are going for 2d and bitmap effects, > often the best results come > from designing for a particular resolution. When it comes down to it, > the actual numbers of the resolution are nott that important. It's > how it looks that matters. > If you design for a particular resolution, then you can change the scale. Even a 640x480 upscaled to 1024*768 is ok to me, or a perfect anim in 1024*768 that is far less pretty in 640*480. I just ask at least 3 settings ;o) (I'd to print them on some displays that support only one of the three)

What about displays that aren't your standard 4:3 ratio, such as my dual 1920x1200 widescreens or my 1024x600 handheld?

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Marc PERTRON
to Steve Williams
Steve Williams wrote
What about displays that aren't your standard 4:3 ratio, such as my dual 1920x1200 widescreens or my 1024x600 handheld?

Well, i ask *at least* the 3 resolutions i gave.
You can do more... :o)
Also, as i give the money i also give the minimal requirements and i think i'm not too restrictive ?
Also as people asked in private, some general answers : -Yes it can be 2D or 3D or even both
-Yes, a simple 2D animation can compete (why not snowfall and Christmas trees ?)

Marc

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Graeme Geldenhuys
to Vincent Snijders
Vincent Snijders wrote
Lazarus is not on the fpc gallery. Vincent

Not related to the Eye Candy Contest, but maybe we could add the fpGUI project to the FPC Gallery? If so, let me know what is needed.

Regards,
- Graeme -

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