A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer
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A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer
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Re: A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer
#2For some context, this was the first raytracer that ran on any personal computer.
Some more context here: http://home.comcast.net/~erniew/juggler.html
and a bit more here: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=10776
The source code is refreshingly simple and easy to read: both the original C code and the ported JS code.
Re: A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer
#3The Juggler showed off the Amiga graphic abilities. It is what helped sell some of the 1986 and 1987 Amiga computers.
Before that it was a bouncing checkered beach ball. Other computers did their own bouncing ball, but the Amiga could multitask and had multiple bouncing beach balls, each program running on its own. I think you could have multiple jugglers as well.
Re: A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer
#4The Juggler showed off the Amiga graphic abilities. It is what helped sell some of the 1986 and 1987 Amiga computers. Before that it was a bouncing checkered beach ball. Other computers did their own bouncing ball, but the Amiga could multitask and had multiple bouncing beach balls, each program running on its own. I think you could have multiple jugglers as well.
A few years later 1992 "State of the Art", Spaceballs demo shows off Amiga 500 pretty well. That whole thing fits on 880 kB floppy and it's rendered realtime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89wq5EoXy-0
A year later same group released "9 Fingers", also running on Amiga 500.
Re: A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer
#5The Juggler showed off the Amiga graphic abilities. It is what helped sell some of the 1986 and 1987 Amiga computers. Before that it was a bouncing checkered beach ball. Other computers did their own bouncing ball, but the Amiga could multitask and had multiple bouncing beach balls, each program running on its own. I think you could have multiple jugglers as well.
Some of the amazing capabilities of the Amiga were influenced by one of its architects: Carl Sassenrath. He has since gone on to create the Rebol language which is even more astounding once you begin to look into it.
He's currently at Roku where I can only begin to imagine what he's working on. My only wish is that they'd replace the horrific BrightScript with Rebol.
Re: A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer
#6I wish he hadn't made so many modifications.
Re: A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer
#7For some context, this was the first raytracer that ran on any personal computer. Some more context here: http://home.comcast.net/~erniew/juggler.html and a bit more here: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=10776 The source code is refreshingly simple and easy to read: both the original C code and the ported JS code.
I trust you are accurate because of your username.
Re: A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer
#8i'm surprised to see so much badness in the original code.
it kind of takes away from the rose tinted view i have of the past being dominated by awesome programmers who got the most out of the hardware...
Re: A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer
#9For some context, this was the first raytracer that ran on any personal computer. Some more context here: http://home.comcast.net/~erniew/juggler.html and a bit more here: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=10776 The source code is refreshingly simple and easy to read: both the original C code and the ported JS code.
I trust you are accurate because of your username.
You do? I think I see blinking red bars around his username...
Re: A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer
#10The Juggler showed off the Amiga graphic abilities. It is what helped sell some of the 1986 and 1987 Amiga computers. Before that it was a bouncing checkered beach ball. Other computers did their own bouncing ball, but the Amiga could multitask and had multiple bouncing beach balls, each program running on its own. I think you could have multiple jugglers as well.
A few years later 1992 "State of the Art", Spaceballs demo shows off Amiga 500 pretty well. That whole thing fits on 880 kB floppy and it's rendered realtime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89wq5EoXy-0 A year later same group released "9 Fingers", also running on Amiga 500. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPoYzwib7JQ
9 Fingers "making of" video, where the Spaceballs dudes videotaped their highschool friends for the dance shots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgriMuXZ3QY
I think Jannicke, the state of the art girl dated Paul (Lone Starr) at the time. They were all teens when they made this and Paul was one of the by far youngest democoders in the scene at the time.
Interview with Jannicke (look how young everyone is): https://web.archive.org/web/20050307132321/http://spaceballs...
More context in Borzyskowski's work: "THE HACKER DEMO SCENE AND IT'S CULTURAL ARTIFACTS" http://fullscream.com/wp-content/uploads/borzysko.txt
Raw #5 diskmag: http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=9511
One day I'll really take the time to write a properly researched history of this very unique era..