To give you (and us ;)) a little bit more time we have extended the deadline by 4 weeks!

The definitely final deadline: Sunday 29th November 2009 - 22:00 Central European Time

Send your screens to: ralf.zenker[no spam]me.com

Damnit, now you're ENCOURAGING me to be lazy. That's a dangerous path to take...  ;)

RA_pdx wrote on 29.09.09 at 15:12:48:

To give you (and us ;)) a little bit more time we have extended the deadline by 4 weeks! The definitely final deadline: Sunday 29th November 2009 - 22:00 Central European Time Send your screens to: ralf.zenker[no spam]me.com

Thanks a lot lot mister Ralf ;)

Hello RA!

im trying to stir up some motivation to contribute a screen..  you know what would really motivate me?!

if an ste master was to drop a few cheeky clues about interesting and unusual applications of the ste hardware (read: blitter)

I know that some of the ste freaks have got some mad tricks up their sleeves!  so dont be shy!  give us some clues :D

big kiss
damo
x

I am no the STE master you are looking for...

but i have some manic ideas for you: ;)

• Blitter-Gouraud
  
• Blitter-Texturemapper
  
• Blitter-MOD-Player: Blitter is changing sample frequencies
  
• Blitter-c2p
  
• Blitter Realtime-Depacking
  
• Blitter-Zooming
  
• Blitter-Alpha-Channel
  

There are so much things you can do with the blitter... and even more.

Not forgetting:

• Biltter-drawing and distorting a Sierpinski triangle in real time
  

:)

RA_pdx wrote on 08.10.09 at 12:05:46:

I am no the STE master you are looking for... but i have some manic ideas for you: ;) Blitter-Gouraud Blitter-Texturemapper Blitter-MOD-Player: Blitter is changing sample frequencies Blitter-c2p Blitter Realtime-Depacking Blitter-Zooming Blitter-Alpha-Channel There are so much things you can do with the blitter... and even more.

i need actual clues RA!  not a list of snazzy fx with the word 'blitter' in front of them  ;D

....

yeah i know i'm too lazy and unskilled to find all this stuff out for myself  :-[

and everyone knows that you, para and tobe are the BLITTER DONS!!  :)

These are effects which have been done with the blitter or could done with it.

For Blitter-Gouraud you can read this article by RAY: http://freenet-homepage.de/ray.tscc/gouraud.htm
It is for Falcon but this can be used for STE too if you are using a c2p buffer. The used technique gave me also a lot of ideas for other things which could be done with the blitter.

Also keep in mind that you can calculate with the blitter using the bit oprations (XOR, AND, ...) and you can shift the result!

Sorry, that i won´t tell you all our current blitter effects before we have released them ourselves. ;)

damo-rg wrote on 08.10.09 at 19:11:32:

RA_pdx wrote on 08.10.09 at 12:05:46: I am no the STE master you are looking for... but i have some manic ideas for you: ;) Blitter-Gouraud Blitter-Texturemapper Blitter-MOD-Player: Blitter is changing sample frequencies Blitter-c2p Blitter Realtime-Depacking Blitter-Zooming Blitter-Alpha-Channel There are so much things you can do with the blitter... and even more. i need actual clues RA!  not a list of snazzy fx with the word 'blitter' in front of them  ;D .... yeah i know i'm too lazy and unskilled to find all this stuff out for myself  :-[ and everyone knows that you, para and tobe are the BLITTER DONS!!  :)

Lazy damo should be flogged :P

Anyhoo, some food for your brain:

• Blitter-Gouraud - http://freenet-homepage.de/ray.tscc/gouraud.htm
  
• Blitter-Texturemapper - http://freenet-homepage.de/ray.tscc/gouraud.htm (again!)
  
• Blitter-MOD-Player: Blitter is changing sample frequencies - I guess this refers to Lance!'s player - get the source from dhs!
  
• Blitter-c2p - I heard frost/sector 1 made a blitter c2p that was slower than software - d'oh!
  
• Blitter Realtime-Depacking - dunno, ra?
  
• Blitter-Zooming - pretty straightfoward when doing just vertical, horizontal is a PITA, maybe paranoid can comment?
  
• Blitter-Alpha-Channel - http://freenet-homepage.de/ray.tscc/blitfade.htm this maybe?
  
• Biltter-drawing and distorting a Sierpinski triangle in real time - http://rg.atari.org/maggie28.htm I have written an article that explains that technique there iirc :)
  

:D

A big thanks to George and Ralph ;)

my gut feeling tells me that the real special stuff involves halftone ram. 

well.. lets see if i have any moment of enlightment

damo-rg wrote on 09.10.09 at 19:01:43:

well.. lets see if i have any moment of enlightment

I hope so! :)