A new release 2.0 of my 3D Engine is now available.
I constantly improved the engine over the last year. The engine renders now 30% bigger models and the rendertime is reduced by 60%.
Yesterday the SpaceX Crew Dragon Spaceship successfully returned to earth and starting a new era of spaceflight. As a reminder of this important event, the modeldata of the „SpaceX Crew Dragon“ is included.
Download: 3dengine2.zip
Download: Ingenuity.zip (only model)
While reading about the history of 3D graphics on homecomputers, the program „Solid States“ for the Atari 800 from Tom Hudson was mentioned. Tom Hudson co-developed CAD-3D (1986) and Cyber Studio (1987) for Atari ST and then the famous 3D Studio (1990) for PCs. „Solid States“ is written in ATARI-BASIC and listed in the magazine „Analog“ in Feb. 1984 #16. As a fan of early 80’s 3D graphics i ported a part of code to the plus/4, leaving out the plotting and disk-operations. You find downloadlink of the plus/4 code and the link to the magazine below the screenshot.
prg: SolidStates.prg
Commodore plus/4 BASIC-Code: SolidStates.zip
Some screenshots from the magazine:
