Effects
Visual effects and demo-style animation: fog, blobs, smoke, patterns and distortions. 11 articles.
Flash smoke
A smoke effect in six versions: smokey motion, smooth particles, lines, a grid with scale and fade, and direction and scale.
30 October 2005TextureEvolver
TextureEvolver: a Java applet for evolving textures, with source for three versions.
17 June 2005Flash circle strips
Circle strips: a simple animation example for ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0.
24 July 2002Flash dust
Dust: a simple animation example for ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0.
22 May 2002Java fog effects
Six fog effects as Java applets: embossed zoom, blurred checks and XOR patterns, checkers, zooming smoke and morphing patterns.
1 September 2001Java 2D blobs
Animated 2D blobs: a Java applet effect, with source.
22 July 2001Java green liquid goo
Green liquid goo: an animated Java applet effect, with source.
8 July 2001Java XOR patterns
A Java applet that spins 3D objects and XORs their polygons into the frame, leaving interesting patterns.
8 February 2001OpenGL ribbon
A Windows C++ OpenGL example: a ribbon effect, with full source.
26 January 2000OpenGL patterns with cubes
Using a 3D grid of cubes to create shapes and patterns. You could say that these are very primitive voxels.
17 January 2000C++ graphics effects
C++ graphics experiments for Windows: a fractal universe generator, a pattern generator and its function networks, triangles, pixel text and polygon booleans.
1 June 1998