20100707 ArchLinux: looking good

It’s been approximately two years since I changed to using Ubuntu for my desktop needs. Before, I was using Mac OS, but I was getting increasingly annoyed with it and the direction it was heading for, specially since Leopard and was released. I have learnt a lot with Ubuntu, and I think they’re doing a [...]

20100222 Breakpoint demolog, day 20: design sketches

Today I have been thinking about the visual part, doing some sketches and all that. I’m not going to put any of them here, for obvious reasons. Although probably the end result won’t match with any of these early drafts, but you would probably comment about them and that would influence me, which I don’t [...]

20100209 Breakpoint demolog, days 1-7

So the quest is set, the aim is clear: create something for Breakpoint 2010. There won’t be another opportunity; not at least under the Breakpoint umbrella. The organizers have expressed publicly they don’t wish to organize yet another edition of nowadays biggest demoscene event, so it’s now or never! (At least until a new event [...]

20090716 “escena.org dentro v2″ sources released

So here’s the last installment of my demoscene sources: escena.org dentro version 2. It was done for past year’s Inspire democompo and it won (incidentally, there weren’t any other entries in the compo but hey, it’s not my fault! :P). This demo used a different approach; instead of building a whole scaffolding of C++ classes [...]

20080804 Neon v2 goes open source

If you’re interested in VJ software, you may probably have heard about Neon v2, the VJ application that shine/xplsv.com developed a few years ago and which has been used not only for lots of VJ gigs but also for creating several real-time demos (including the euskal 2005 winner demo, Sound Pressure) Unfortunately Shine is very [...]