Retro rasters

Gryzor · 10:46, 02 December 13

So, as the weather got colder here in Athens we started using the odd blankets. One of these was a thin, woolen blanket (in Greek: χράμι) that my grandmother made on a loom, some -oh, maybe 80 years ago.

So it occurred to me: look at those rasters! Mind you, the loom has a practically infinite vertical resolution since the product can be as long as you want it to be, and there's only one colour per line because displaying multiple colours is too time-consuming (if possible at all with this kind of cloth), but what is there is lovely.

This is my new favorite blanket.

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Bryce · 11:17, 02 December 13

Your grandmother was obviously an Atari / Jeff Minter fan....

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Bryce.

Gryzor · 11:37, 02 December 13

Indeed! And the stories she'd told me about how they used hemp oil as a painkiller...

Bryce · 11:41, 02 December 13

By smoking it?

Bryce.

Gryzor · 11:48, 02 December 13

No, applying it, but who knows what those old people used to do when they got back from the fields...

redbox · 13:49, 02 December 13

All you need now is two wooden battens and someone (a wife maybe?) to hold both ends and pull on them alternately. Then you having a moving raster

Next step would be to print out a sinus table and get her to move the raster accordingly = bouncing sinus raster.

Oh the fun could be endless.

MaV · 13:56, 02 December 13

You can do sinus patterns by putting the blanket over you outstretched legs.

And what's more, the demo effect is enhanced by providing input to your olfactory senses.

arnoldemu · 14:00, 02 December 13

I love the way she mostly used CPC colours.
CPC was ahead of it's time.

MaV · 14:04, 02 December 13

The "pixels" are double-width as well! Proper MODE 0, love it!

Bryce · 14:06, 02 December 13

Quote from: redbox on 13:49, 02 December 13
All you need now is two wooden battens and someone (a wife maybe?) to hold both ends and pull on them alternately. Then you having a moving raster

Next step would be to print out a sinus table and get her to move the raster accordingly = bouncing sinus raster.

Oh the fun could be endless.

So let me get this straight... You're going to hand your missus 2 battens and then tell her to prance about to make her a living 8-bit demo? That's just asking to go wrong. I can only imagine where those battens are going to end up being stuffed.

Bryce.

Gryzor · 15:54, 02 December 13

Wish she was still alive. Of course, she'd be about 110 by now, but if her eyes and hands still held she could probably make awesome sprite-based stuff...

Bryce · 15:56, 02 December 13

Na, be happy that she never got to see Jeff Minters later work, it would have ruined it for her (it did for me)

Bryce.

Gryzor · 15:58, 02 December 13

Space Giraffe was plain awesome, but it'd have taken her another ten years, probably, to fit all that was going on.

ralferoo · 13:33, 03 December 13

If you film it, you could enter it into a wild compo...

Gryzor · 13:59, 03 December 13

What, as in "drunken chicks on spring break"?

arnoldemu · 14:16, 03 December 13

Quote from: ralferoo on 13:33, 03 December 13
If you film it, you could enter it into a wild compo...

Like.

Another idea:

Take a piece of clear plastic and some pens, colour in some letters on it, then move it over the top of the sheet, and you now have a scroller over your rasters.

EDIT:

And another. Get a rastafarian to sit on the sheet, and you now have a rasta over rasters.

No more ideas from me now

Gryzor · 14:18, 03 December 13

The first idea is really cool, actually; if I wasn't too bored to sit down and fill in big pixels with a felt pen on a plastic sheet I'd do it and film it

redbox · 14:18, 03 December 13

Quote from: arnoldemu on 14:16, 03 December 13
No more ideas from me now

Play Commando on a kazoo for the soundtrack?

Gryzor · 14:20, 03 December 13

Nah, we should have that awesome dude doing all the acapella chiptunes on Youtube...

Bryce · 14:23, 03 December 13

How about stretching the blanket slightly wider than it is and then claiming that you had to use CRTC register tricks / overscan to make the effect?

Bryce.

Gryzor · 14:32, 03 December 13

Unfortunately that material is very inflexible, but it's already overscan: more than covers a queen-size bed!

arnoldemu · 15:00, 03 December 13

Quote from: Gryzor on 14:32, 03 December 13
Unfortunately that material is very inflexible, but it's already overscan: more than covers a queen-size bed!

can it be underscanned by folding it?

Diagonal rasters by laying it in a different direction across the bed?

Gryzor · 15:02, 03 December 13

Not really; then either one's head and one's feet will be cold, or half of each of us. Not very practical.

Bryce · 15:48, 03 December 13

Quote from: Gryzor on 15:02, 03 December 13
Not really; then either one's head and one's feet will be cold, or half of each of us. Not very practical.

Yeah, but if you use a smaller area you can refresh it more often and the animation will look smoother

Bryce.

Gryzor · 15:50, 03 December 13

The way I read it: smaller blanket=>people come closer then=>animation" gets going.

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