Blowing in the Wind

[Geoff Canyon]

On Aug 19, 2005, at 12:59 PM, Todd Higgins wrote:

> Does anyone know how that would compare to a similar animation in  
> Flash?

As people have said, Flash can't have shaped windows in the first  
place, so this animation is out of consideration. My experience with  
Flash movies in general is that they happily take up 100% of my  
1.2gHx CPU. Check out the N game for an example:

http://www.harveycartel.org/metanet/n_screenshots.html

It's a lot of fun, by the way -- great physics model.

It's an example of something that I think could have been done with  
Rev --  albeit probably not as easily as in Flash. The game takes up  
everything my PowerBook has. On a 2+gHz PC, same story -- maxed CPU.  
It's too bad Flash (and Rev?) isn't more graphically efficient. The N  
game is less complex than what Ambrosia Software was running on a  
6100 over ten years ago:

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/maelstrom/

Granted, Ambrosia wrote that in C (assembly?). Still, graphics are  
graphics -- move this there and composite over that, etc.