Planet Bob - Melting Colors

[RSS Bot]

Hi there!

 

So, after ruling out other technologies, I thought to explore some more color melting trickery. I've used it before in some Jumpman demos I published, and recently johnnywc utilized it in Lady Bug, so it's nothing totally new.

 

Anyway, I wrote a small "melt" bin, that allows experimenting with color combinations.

 

The simple basic idea is to flicker with 30Hz between two different colored and shaped(!) images, resulting in a 4 color image, consisting of

 

1. Background Color

2. Color 1

3. Color 2

4. Melt color

 

Where 1 doesn't flicker, 2&3 flicker at 30Hz and 4 looks almost solid, if 2&3 share the same brightnes.

 

Also, while 1,2&3 are freely choosable, 4 is less predictable. Red and Green will melt into yellow for example. (It's just like summing up the RGB values of 2&3).

 

The trick would now be finding a fitting color combination, and reducing the Colony 7 logo to 48*X, getting rid of the 5th color, all while trying to use a lot more of colors 1&4 than of 2&3... (Uhm... Nathan? )

 

Attached is some melting test program. Joystick left/right/up/down will select colors 2&3, RESET and SELECT will adjust their brightness. I precompiled two bniaries, one with a possible C7 color scheme, the other with Jamaica colors.

 

How do they look on NTSC TVs?

 

melt.zip

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?a...&showentry=1471