Tom's Plasma
- Initial Release Date
- March 3, 1994
- Color Palette
- 8/18b
- Max Resolution
- 320x200
- License Status
- Freeware © Tom Dibble
- Codebase
- x86 Assembly
- Platform(s)
- MS-DOS
- Author(s)
- Tom Dibble
Description
Unlike most plasmas, which tend to use combinations of Trigonometric functions to generate their patterns, Tom's Plasma uses the plasma fractal and palette rotation.
The plasma fractal generates a much rougher surface, which unfortunately doesn't seem to provide the best basis for the "swimming" animation used likely due to the roughness making it easier to track the separately scrolling layers. The swimming can be disabled with 'space' however, and the program then provides a nice palette rotated plasma fractal.
Only one looping palette is provided, defined in TOMSPLAS.DAT. New dat files can be generated with the PLASDAT.EXE provided. It will generate the same sequence every time, but a new algorithm can be specified in the provided source code.
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Downloads
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Tom's Plasma (Windows DOSBox edition):
The MS-DOS version compatible with Windows via DOSBox.
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Tom's Plasma (vx.x):
MS-DOS Tom's Plasma