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Re: ASCII Clouds

#21

Post by burnt-resistor »

Neat. It'd be more "ASCII" if it used 8x16 pixel (but right extended to 9x16) characters in 80:133 width:height aspect ratio since 80x25 characters at 720x400 on 4:3 results in 80:133 pixels. An arbitrary sized canvas is cool so long as the aspect ratio is preserved.

The infamous MCGA/"VGA" mode 13h had pixels with an aspect ratio 6:5, while 320 x 240 Mode X was square (1:1).

I still remember the unchained offset calculation for the memory offset for pixel memory access before the era of U and V pipes and many optimizing compiler passes:

    unsigned short offset = (((y
In real-mode (linear): 0xa0000 + (320 * y) + x

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Post by plastic041 »

You can render only single characters. First you need to change the HTML "max" attribute of to 1.1 in the "Glyph Thresholds". And set 0.0 for the desired characters and the characters above. Set 1.1 for the remaining characters.

For example, if you only want the dash, set the dot and dash to 0.0. Then set 1.1 for the plus, ring, and cross characters.

Re: ASCII Clouds

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Post by otikik »

This looks like a good way to model "satellite-view clouds" where you render "the full atmosphere". I don't think it would work well when modeling "ground-view clouds" however. I have been looking for a good (fast) algorithm for doing that, would appreciate it if people have pointers for that.
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