2 8 abd 09a 46b ÌÉ DEMO REVIEWS ------------------------------------ ÈË First of all I'd like to say some words about fractals in demos. Real-time rendering of ÊfractalsÈ and espesially Mandelbrot/Julia sets, is totally without any interest. That's first of all because all the real cool fractals are much more time consuming, They often take hours to calculate, and they need much more intelligent color selection than plane repeating color cycles. Secondly it's exeremly boring to watch a fractal rendering, and espesially when you have seen a mandelbrot set before! Note that the demos reviewed have been taken out from a minor selection of the newer demos. Don't take this too seriously, remember that the demos here have been collected within a very short period of time. We have worked by a few simple obnoxious rules. Ê 1) No demo ever deserves more than 95% in overall rating. 2) If the author of the demo claims it to be boring, we automatically assume it is. 3) It is impossible to judge a demo fair. ÈYou don't need to hang yourself if we don't find your demo very amusing, just make a better one next time. The score table is quite wierd. For instance the grafix can get 110%. That may be because the demo is very long and there is loads of good grafix. However the important score is the overall score, that does not need to be the average of the other scores. Some of the overall ratings has been calculated by RMS/ root mean square average according to the following formula: Rms = sigma( sq (p) * sgn (p) ) / n. Remember failure is human, and by failing to rate the demos correct we are merely proving our humanness and not trying to piss a lot of guys off... Now follows a brief review of the demos: Ê------------------------------------ É Ray of Hope 2/Majic 12 Ê------------------------------------ ÉPositive:È Excellent opening with creemy grafix. Improved monocromatic interference patterns. X-treme copper effects. Astonishing end part grafix. Good 3D channel. Very OK RGB plasma. Groovy music. ÉNegative:È The sine balls was as claimed boring. Outright awful bob -vector. ÊSelected scores: ÉOpening:È 90% ÉCopper: È 95% ÉMusic: È 80% ÉNasty Bob:È -10% ÉTotal: Ê81.5% ------------------------------------ É Digital Innovation/Anarchy Ê------------------------------------ ÈGood demo, but the only innovation we found was in the name. (Joke!) ÉPositive:È This demo has got most of the effects used in todays demos, however not something real new. The best thing is the transformers vectors. It's big work to make a demo last for 26 minutes. ÉNegative:È To make the demo last for 26 min. one has to do everything veeeeryyy sloooow, and that makes the demo exteremly boring! ÊSelected scores: ÉGrafix:È 105% ÉSound:È 57% ÉCode:È 110% ÉD-sign:È 40% ÉInnovation:È 10% ÉFractals:È 65% ÉBoring: È -10% ÉTotal: Ê 73.3% Ê------------------------------------ É No reality/Devils Ê------------------------------------ ÉPositive: È The demo is faster than average (not so boring!), nice comlex vector objects and copper grafix plasma, Lightsourced fractal landscapes. It's a big work to code! Nice end fractals! ÉNegative: È Nothing new!, 'Boring plasma' as the they claim, dirty stars! Silly mandelbrot/julia rendering. ÊSelected scores: ÉCode: È 70% ÉMusic: È 50% ÉD-sign: È 60% ÉGrafix: È 50% ÉTotal:Ê 55.0% É ÿ