Comments on: Digital sand

Digital sand

Wet Spot — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:53:33 -0800

Sand. (Java applet)

By: willnot

willnot — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 13:03:51 -0800

Cool.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 13:13:06 -0800

very cool.

By: yevge

yevge — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 13:17:15 -0800

very very cool.

By: skyline

skyline — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 13:27:41 -0800

Extra cool. Sad for me though, because I did something similar to this that I thought was original. Gives me some new ideas, though.

By: LouReedsSon

LouReedsSon — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 13:28:26 -0800

And pretty cool too!

By: muckster

muckster — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 13:46:09 -0800

Flowing through the hourglass pushing through the funnel turn once more and racing all your siblings for the tunnel slide like the silicone embrace you as you fall then bounce around and let your brothers crush you to the wall --Phish, Sand Yeah, cool.

By: 2sheets

2sheets — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 13:56:33 -0800

This is going to replace the water applet on my geocities home page.

By: trondant

trondant — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 15:10:36 -0800

You downloaded sand?

By: cedar

cedar — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 15:12:22 -0800

C'mon 2sheets, I love my lake applet.

By: whatnotever

whatnotever — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 15:49:36 -0800

Waaahhh... Very cool. Skyline, that's some nice work beyond just the pollen, too. And Processing is very intriguing. I should play around with that some day... I think that "nifty graphical toys" (or whatever you may want to call them) are definitely the best justification for the existence of java applets. Well, maybe non-graphics-geeks don't feel the same way... but hey.

By: Nothing

Nothing — Sun, 26 Oct 2003 00:57:58 -0800

It's cool, but I have to note that the other day I downloaded a program that generates a million tree forest, renders it in 3d complete with wind that tosses the branches and blows the leaves, and lets me fly through it, and it used less proc time than this sand does.

By: whatnotever

whatnotever — Sun, 26 Oct 2003 08:19:27 -0800

Nothing, I never claimed applets were efficient, of course. And we need links, man. I assume you're talking about IDV's Huge Forest, though The Valley is apparently newer/bigger/better/etc. (Their server really doesn't want to serve me those 10 MB files, though. Oh wait, there it goes; 200KBps is good enough, I guess.) I'm not sure if you're just dismissive of the applets' processor usage or also of their simplicity. It seems so many people are obsessed with photorealism these days. That's all well and good, but I feel that these other effects, simply pushing pixels instead of polygons, are just as important. Several are more impressive to me, due to the inherent creativity of making something so cool out of such a simple effect.

By: Nothing

Nothing — Sat, 22 Nov 2003 03:32:28 -0800

Oops, forgot about this thread. Sorry. Yes, that is the link I was talking about. Anyway, It's not a fair comparison because the huge forest thing uses the capabilities of my graphics card. I was just surprised that it took so much to simulate sand like that. As for the simplicity, I thought it was really cool. I've been playing with it off and on for the past month. I totally agree about the scope of interesting/impressive extending beyond just photo realism.