Nambafa

Graphics tutorials

On this page I have gathered a few tutorials/how-to guides on computer graphics.

To have a look, please choose a series from the Main courses listing - or pick a specific item from the expanded Menu below...

(I just had to include some ascii art here - for the pure fun of it..! ;)

 
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• Nambafa's pixel graphics tutorial
• Denthor's VGA Trainer Program

 
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• Nambafa's pixel graphics tutorial:
  • Intro - Introduction
  • Part 1 - The basic elements (pixel buffer, canvas, applet)
  • Part 2 - Some basic pixel shapes (dot, rectangle, ellipse)
  • Part 3 - Colormaps
  • Part 4 - The fire effect
  • Part 5 - Fireballs
  • Part 6 - Shaders (under construction)
  • Part 7 - Sandbox (empty)

• Denthor's VGA Trainer Program:
  • Intro - Introduction
  • Part 1 - MCGA mode, putpixel
  • Part 2 - Pallettes, verticle retrace, fading
  • Part 3 - Circles and lines
  • Part 4 - Virtual screens
  • Part 5 - Scrolling
  • Part 6 - Look-up tables
  • Part 7 - Animations
  • Part 8 - 3D objects
  • Part 9 - Polygons
  • Part 10 - Chain-4
  • Part 11 - Cross-fading
  • Part 12 - Full screen scrolling
  • Part 13 - 3D startfields
  • Part 14 - Glenzing, faster polygons, fixed point and assembler
  • Part 15 - Plasmas
  • Part 16 - Scaling bitmaps
  • Part 17 - Pixel morphing and statics
  • Part 18 - PCX files and file packing
  • Part 19 - Flame effect
  • Part 20 - 3D hidden face removal and face sorting
  • Part 21 - Texture mapping