TnC Internet Adventures: Photo 3D album/screensaver

This was really a discovery, with a lot of patience I found a lot of scènes for this program. It creates a 3d galery in different settings and the 3d design is simple but looks good enough. I made some yt vids with it with pics from a minecraft server.

Mediafire/ Pcloud

Kaleidoscopes Part 1 : Psychedelia MSX-1

Between my collection of MSX games there was a program called PSYCH, yeah MSX tapes doesnt allow more than 5 charcaters. 
If you start it, you saw the full name called PSYCHEDELIA. It was one of the first visulaizers on any computer, it was made for commodore 6510, ported tozx spectrum and in the end also to msx. with your jkoystick and lots of keys ou could change the patterns, colors speed and a couple of other things. bUT you could create and sae your own set of settings, it didnt respond to any music, like todays visualizers and you could not create your own patterns or texts. so within 15 minutes youhave seen it all and reset your msx to play a real game. and because its a port it doesnt use allMSX 1 colours, only 6 of them, which is a reaL mistake. BUT hey easy money... the software PSYCHEDELIA was when it came out very overprized, and what i like the most in it, is the very high speed of the visuals. the creator made other visulizers the interat to controllers and music, check the website, he improved in many ways his PSYCHEDELIA.
When I started this post I was convinced I had to make a video about the MSX version of PSYCHEDELIA, but after seen YT videos of the Spectrum I saw no differences with the MSX version and therefor no reason to create and upload.

I found the manual of the C64 version, I guess the port to Spectrum and MSX uses the same keys. Maybe it will help to figure out what you can do with the MSX version.

However nobody else tried the same thing on MSX-1 in any way, which is a bit of disapointment for me, considering the amount of MSX-1 software that has been made. 

Link to yt spectrum version needed.

TnC Internet Adventures: Online Image Editor and Gif Maker

On regular basis, my son had to make some Powerpoint presentations for speeches or overviews for books. And he needs a lot of pictures, but there are always problems like, 
it's too big or too small or it must be transparent to fit on the page, etc. etc. 

Yes yes, there are many many free image editors online, but they all have limitations and you have to pay to get these limitations removed. Not this one.

http://www.online-image-editor.com/ 

Does what it promissed, just a lot of wizards and tools you always wanted to try out on 
your images or photo's. It may be look like an ordinair image editor, it has alway great fun features for photo's. And it's totally free !
I use the transparantcy tool often, it works okay but it takes some time to get the best result.
Well, it's much easier and cheaper than using Photoshop, any way !!!

But wait, there is more.
By accident I clicked on Animation button and discovered another treasure:

http://www.online-image-editor.com/gifmaker/ 

It is so simple to create an animated GIF with this tool, you will not believe it.
Just upload your pictures (make sure they have the same resolution), change the transition (delay between showing the pictures), choose from different transitions by clicking on the box and click on create animation. Then the animated GIF will be made in seconds and by clicking with rightmousebutton, you can save the GIF with your own chosen name. 

I used the GIF maker a lot of times in the latest posts, for me a new way to show more pictures without messing with the texts.

 

Optical Illusions & Impossible Objects ( non MSX part)

Recently we bought 2 books about Optical Illusions, very cheap. It explains a lot about different kind of optical illusions. 

I did not know there were so many. 
Even long time ago, at the Romans they made already some optical illusions, famous painters used it and later on in childrenbooks and newspapers. 


The books shows you can create almost with everything some kind of illusion. 

It made me wonder if I could find some optical illusions on my MSX disks. I found 2 slideshows with impossible objects. 
In the Netherlands we call every impossible objects 
an Escher, the famous Dutch artist who created some optical illusions just by hand. Some slideshows were not enough to fill the disk so I converted some pictures imspired by Escher, I called them Modern Eschers. While I was searching for Modern Eschers I stumbled into some Russian English blogs about impossible objects everywhere and also some videos of animated Eschers. These videos are very impressive and made me wonder what would happened if Escher had a computer to work on. 
Enjoy the videos, the blogs and the MSX disk 
I compiled, called Impossible Objects Disk.

Check out that other post.

- Blogs about Impossible Objects
- A lot of Animated Eschers on Vimeo


There is more than only YouTube, so I tried to find interesting videos on Vimeo.
And I found enough good stuff.
Check out vimeo.com, you might the interface.