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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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