+MrFish Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 57 minutes ago, Atari8man2004 said: This looks pretty good; but if you convert the input image to grayscale first, you could eliminate those odd color artifacts at the top of his head. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 6 hours ago, Atari8man2004 said: Roman Centurion and Commodus AD 177-192. AR Denarius Nike a days wages. Atari8man_Roman centurion.xex 21.99 kB · 3 downloads Atari8man_Denarius.xex 22.16 kB · 3 downloads Centurion is great. Fantastic use of shade/dark negative spaces. Damn we have to start getting more static RC images into A8 interactive adventure games. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Collies 34 colours drpeter_Collies.xex 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Collies 34 colours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 Sony VR Headset. Atari8man_SONY_VR.xex 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 Artificial intelligence with some small artifacts. Atari8man_artificial intelligence.xex 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 The ARK of the COVENANT Atari8man_The_ARK_of_the_COVENANT.xex 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnurrikowski Posted October 21, 2023 Share Posted October 21, 2023 (edited) Atari8Man, I love your pics. Very tasteful choices and each pic is perfectly converted. Thank you! Edited October 21, 2023 by Schnurrikowski 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted October 21, 2023 Share Posted October 21, 2023 4 hours ago, Schnurrikowski said: Atari8Man, I love your pics. Very tasteful choices and each pic is perfectly converted. Thank you! Thanks for the kind words I'm having a blast with the raster converter and the users on this forum helped me so much get the most from this awesome program. Thanks again. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted October 21, 2023 Share Posted October 21, 2023 20 minutes ago, Atari8man2004 said: Thanks for the kind words I'm having a blast with the raster converter and the users on this forum helped me so much get the most from this awesome program. Thanks again. Incredibly addictive isn't it? Seeing the A8 display these amazing RC images over the years is fantastic. Again, more RC images need to make it into games, (international karate recently had showed with cleaver timing it can make it into some games to great effect). Interactive adventure games would be best suited for these. Keep em coming and if you haven't already, have a play around with masks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted October 21, 2023 Share Posted October 21, 2023 3 hours ago, Beeblebrox said: Incredibly addictive isn't it? Seeing the A8 display these amazing RC images over the years is fantastic. Again, more RC images need to make it into games, (international karate recently had showed with cleaver timing it can make it into some games to great effect). Interactive adventure games would be best suited for these. Keep em coming and if you haven't already, have a play around with masks. I haven't used masks yet but I fully understand how they work. Addictive is an under statement I'm converting 8 at a time and I have some real nice ones in the oven and shoud be ready in a day or so. I'm impressed with the level of realism the A8 can produce considering it's 40+ year age. It would be truely awesome to used these images for title screen on games and other things. I saw how it took international karate to a whole new level. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted October 21, 2023 Share Posted October 21, 2023 31 minutes ago, Atari8man2004 said: I haven't used masks yet but I fully understand how they work. Addictive is an under statement I'm converting 8 at a time and I have some real nice ones in the oven and shoud be ready in a day or so. I'm impressed with the level of realism the A8 can produce considering it's 40+ year age. It would be truely awesome to used these images for title screen on games and other things. I saw how it took international karate to a whole new level. I agree. Masks brought my conversions to a whole new level. Just wait till you start creating sideshows using Sheddy's RC slideshow tools also. I've created quite a few themed ones including those based around Skyrim and Bladerunner. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted October 22, 2023 Share Posted October 22, 2023 The Great 3dfx - gone but not forgotten Atari8man_3dfx.xex Atari8man_3dfx_ Voodoo_5500.xex 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted October 22, 2023 Share Posted October 22, 2023 Nvidia HQ Atari8man_Nvidia_HQ.xex 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tebe Posted October 22, 2023 Share Posted October 22, 2023 (edited) try with this (Hannibal takes selfie at war with his friends ancient roman centurion warrior) Edited October 22, 2023 by tebe 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 Awesome Raytrace this one took almost no time. Atari8man_Raytrace_1.xex 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 14 hours ago, tebe said: try with this (Hannibal takes selfie at war with his friends ancient roman centurion warrior) I'll give it a try.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 1 hour ago, Atari8man2004 said: Awesome Raytrace this one took almost no time. Atari8man_Raytrace_1.xex 22.25 kB · 1 download Wow - you are really doing some fantastic work! I only wish I could get a decent pic from my CRT but it's PAL, and a 60Hz phone doesn't like a 50Hz CRT. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 16 minutes ago, Stephen said: Wow - you are really doing some fantastic work! I only wish I could get a decent pic from my CRT but it's PAL, and a 60Hz phone doesn't like a 50Hz CRT. Thank You, All my 8bits I swap the Antic NTSC for the Pal version so I can run almost all pal software. Do you have a CRT on your 8bit? Raster converted pictures look so much better on a CRT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 (edited) 9 hours ago, Atari8man2004 said: Awesome Raytrace this one took almost no time. This demonstrates neatly how much of getting great-looking conversions is about the choice and/or pre-processing of the original image. This image could almost (but not quite) be done just with display list interrupts and standard 4-colour playfield graphics, without any use of player/missile graphics and requires no in-display-line on-the-fly- register changes- which is why it resolved to a high accuracy in only 28 million iterations. Great choice! Edited October 23, 2023 by drpeter 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 (edited) Santorini both 45 colours This was an interesting experiment. I started the left picture running, then thought- hang-on, I should probably have mirror-imaged this one. I left the first conversion running, then started a mirror-image one. To be fair, although Rasta thought after 4 million iterations each the mirrored image (on the right) was algorithmically the better conversion (Norm. Dist. of 2.8 vs 3.4) visually I think both are of equal quality. drpeter_Santorini.xex drpeter_Santorini_R.xex Edited October 23, 2023 by drpeter 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 9 hours ago, Atari8man2004 said: Thank You, All my 8bits I swap the Antic NTSC for the Pal version so I can run almost all pal software. Do you have a CRT on your 8bit? Raster converted pictures look so much better on a CRT. Yeah - I have several Sony PVMs ranging from 8" to 20". My main setup runs a VBXE to a 600 line 20" PVM via RGB. Incredible image quality! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 A small but irritating HPOS error fixed in the right picture drpeter_Santorini_R.xex 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 (edited) 4 hours ago, drpeter said: This image could almost (but not quite) be done just with display list interrupts and standard 4-colour playfield graphics, without any use of player/missile graphics As an interesting proof-of-concept, this is Rasta rendering one version of the same image with no use of player-missile graphics- so you could use PMGs to create an animated overlay, scrolling text, etc. etc. for a title screen or demo... This works so well even without PMGs because at no point are there more than 6 (possibly 7 at most) colours on a single scanline. 19 colours Original image: Rasta at end of processing (improvement had stalled at this point, despite the very high number of solutions): The Rasta-converted image and xex: drpeter_Sphere.xex Edited October 23, 2023 by drpeter 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tebe Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 ham_convert RayTrace.g2f 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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