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Chromelodeon’s Polygon Sun

POLYGON SUN (“Glitch Master”) from johnny rogers on Vimeo.

Sadly departed, but not forgotten!

Via Offworld.

Art Stuffs • Visual Artists

Early computer graphics

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Thanks to O_TR_O for sharing this gem related to computer graphics in the 80s.

The Electronic Visualization Laboratory, from now on EVL (eeeeevil :P), is “an interdisciplinary graduate research laboratory that combines art and computer science, specializing in advanced visualization and networking technologies”. Active since early days of computing in the University of Illinois in Chicago, these people have been researching on advanced fields like “distributed computing/visualization, collaborative software, the development of viable, scalable, deployable stereo displays and management of next-generation advanced networking initiatives”.

The focus of this article is on a set of works developed in the early 80s by a group of students, on a system called  “Datamax UV-1”, which ultimately spawned the creation of the EVL lab itself. These were created with a variation of an old programming language called GRASS (smoke much, mon? :P) and deployed on the Z-Box platform, which was a “a raster graphics machine”. 

With a certain “demo” vibe on many of the pieces, it’s great to see art like this done in a context that is not exclusively related to computers or a computer-related activity like the demoscene.

Check out their YouTube channel for a bunch of cool stuff to look at. Particularly interesting are the works pre 1980. Top notch.

Chipmusic

Hard plAYer: AY-8192 synthesizer

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Atari ST • Chipmusic

This is YM2149 II

I took my STj, a Technics and my Vestax and recorded a second edition to the hit “This is YM2149” compilation series… I call it “This is YM2149 ii” :)

Concerto For Acid Band – Jess/Overlanders
Pacemaker – 505/Paradox
No Sheep in Outer Mongolia – Mad Max/The Exceptions
CPU Eater – 505/Paradox
Funktion – Damo/Reservoir Gods
Pea – SH3/Reservoir Gods
Chu Chu Rocket – MSG/Reservoir Gods
Tetris – gwEm/PHF
dYManite – Stu/Drop Da Domb
Killer – Big Alec/Delta Force
Different World – gwEm/PHF
Cassiopeia – Floopy/MJJ Prod
Outlaw – Crazy Q/DHS
Bubble Days – Dma-Sc/Sector One

I took mostly hits from active sceners this time, with a couple of classics. Hope you will enjoy this mix.

Download the mix here:

http://files.dhs.nu/mpeg/this_is_ym2149_ii-mixed_by_gwEm.mp3

or:

LittleGPTracker

11hz Robot - Blurred and Crushed

b&c11hz Robot has put out a fantastic new release, Blurred and Crushed:  six beautiful tracks masterfully crafted in Piggy Tracker that can be streamed and downloaded here.  Do yourself a favor and put this one on the top of your to-do list.