Paolo RedaelliPixel art by Mark Ferrari
Also available here, with a nice way to change colors according to daytime. According to Daughter of the King also
“Seize the Day was a calendar program made by in 1994 by Buena Vista software. It features graphics that at the time, were revolutionary because of the way they handled color cycling. These images were static bitmaps, but by changing color values, they appear animated. What is also impressive about these images is that they had full day night cycles built in, rendered also through color cycling.
A few years ago, a html5 version was made. A copy was uncovered online and there is a way to use the program through DOSbox. As well, one of the original programmers for the project, Iam Gilman, has thought of the idea of remaking it, open sourced, for modern machines.”
Many of these images are now available with enhanced features in Mark Ferrari’s official mobile app: http://pixfabrik.com/livingworlds/
I read that the app should be “opensource”, but I haven’t been able to locate the sources….
Yes, there was some thought of doing it open source a while ago, but we ended up not going that way, especially because the artwork itself is copyrighted, and the code without the artwork isn’t all that useful.
That said, there is some related code released open source here if you’re interested:
http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article-Old_School_Color_Cycling_with_HTML5.html
Thank you for all those informations! May I keep a copy of your GIFs here or shall I delete them and refer instead to your originals?
No need to take the GIFs down, but linking to the mobile app as well would be nice 🙂
I’m also curious to know how you found such an obscure personal blog 😃
I found it via Twitter: https://twitter.com/p_redaelli/status/1151582099306176512 🙂
Thanks!