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Sol_HSA
01-13-2009, 11:56 PM
After writing "The Turing Machines Didn't Care (http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=52299)" for the 11th pseudoannual text mode demo competition, I spent some time working on making my rgb->text converters better.

I then went and wrote down a chronology of sorts explaining the research I did, and the results, as well: http://iki.fi/sol/textfx.

I may do a 'final version' of "turing" using the latest and greatest, but I'm waiting for the results from TMDC first..

roel
01-14-2009, 03:51 AM
That is very cool! Your previous tmdc announcements made me create some text mode experiments too, but it only resulted in a brute-force slow thing. When I was searching for heuristics to speed things up I stopped, but I'll read your text for sure.

vrnunes
01-14-2009, 05:05 AM
Very cool. I liked the demo, the only minor thing was that I needed to manually resize the window, because it opened with like 50% of the rendering height. I ran it on Vista. Besides that, nicely done, very cool indeed!

Sol_HSA
01-14-2009, 06:50 AM
Very cool. I liked the demo, the only minor thing was that I needed to manually resize the window, because it opened with like 50% of the rendering height. I ran it on Vista. Besides that, nicely done, very cool indeed!
Yes, that's a known bug. The window-resizing code used to work, but either later versions of windows or the fact that computers got faster broke it. =)

Adding a simple sleep() in a certain place fixed the problem. As I mentioned, I may be releasing a "final" version later on.