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by chipsy 4094 days ago
For what it was aiming to do, I think it makes a lot of sense, albeit it might be a little bit too factored for the data(e.g. passing in the whole world to functions called only once).

You can kind of tell that this is more "proof of concept" than "artistic triumph" because the scene itself is relatively bland stuff, with its most impressive aspect today being that the juggler actually animates somewhat like a person. Everything else is just a straightforward demonstration of the Amiga's compute resources and display capability. Since the output was always going to be a single prerendered animation, deep optimization probably wouldn't be worth it.

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i mean stuff like the wonky reflection code and checkerboard logic... its a bit 'special', even for a proof of concept.

its unexpected given the apparent intuition for rendering/geometry/maths from the simple, yet clever animation used.