Glenz Vector Cube

By: Kevin Picone Added: August 23rd, 2013

Category: All,Palette Mapping

This example recreates a classic 3d effect that was popular on the 16bit platforms such as the Amiga / Atari ST. Those older systems support bit plane display modes, which makes such effects relatively easy. The effect works by drawing each side of the cube to different bit plane. This allows the program to alter the individual bits of the output pixel without ever accessing that memory      Modern computers use a chunky display modes though, where either a byte, 16bit word or 32bit integer are used to represent each pixel. Such displays are easy to draw dots onto, but make altering individual bits within the pixels more work. To recreate such effects in PlayBasic, we're setting up a 16bit Palette Mapped screen, then rendering the cube sides using the OR inkmode, so each side is drawn onto a separate power of 2. Creating an emulation of a bit planed display mode.

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