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venomus



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:24 pm    Post subject: Chaos Theory Reply with quote

This is just a funny but pointless demo I made. By using sprites as a particle system and creating these shapes with a relatively simple algorithm. BTW the technical name is 'strange attractor'.




Before I found the right speed/timestep ratio for stability, the attractor would break down quickly to infinity. Or converge to zero giving interesting results:




Source code:

http://www.ihud.com/file.php?file=files/290806/1156807345/lorentz.qc
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RenegadeC



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oooo, pretty Very Happy
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scar3crow
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i must say, that is quite cool
cool enough for news! (and i actually had the free time to make a post so i did)
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Sajt



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Funky!

I think once I managed to make a rotating sphere of bubbles (like the first or second level in Dark Forces)... Very Happy But this is cooler
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leileilol



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

are you aware of mathlib
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venomus



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Or I could make an openGL app, but that would be kind of besides the point.

Here are some more, same algorithm, different parameters (bound to health, ammo etc) and a beam trace:




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MauveBib



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I coded a qc mandelbrot set once, but got bored debugging it.
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Tei



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice work!
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McKilled



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

shouldnt this be in the qarchives? :p

the file is offline :-/
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