Hi Jim, yeah, I remember that now that you mention it. I would imagine the reason the balls had that weird shape is do to the fact digitally creating squares and rectangles are infinitely easier than making rounded objects like balls, ovals, and other objects with a more rounded appearance. I'm no expert on digital graphics technology by any means, but I have now and then glanced at the chapters in my game programming books on creating 2D and 3D graphics and it is truly interesting stuff. Even though I am college educated, took geometry, trig, and all that good stuff that stuff was a bit more mathematically challenging than I cared to get into at the time. Grin.
Jim Kitchen wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Yeah, I played the heck out of Pong on my Atari 2600. Sure the graphics were > very primitive, but it didn't matter, it was still a great challenging game. > It even had multi player mode, hockey mode etc. But hey the ball was > actually a little rectangle as was every thing on the screen back then. Well > you know a rectangle or a combination of them. Like the car in Pole > Position, the invaders and all in Space Invaders. It took imagination to > draw things that represented things and imagination to be able to tell what > they were supposed to be. <grin> > > TGIF and BFN > > Jim > > Why does a round pizza come in a square box? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.kitchensinc.net > (440) 286-6920 > Chardon Ohio USA > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
