Phew. Just finished my finals at the university for last semester, had some time to come up and breathe (i.e. make a small applet).

After spending so much time programming a heavy-duty fps framework, I decided to try something less demanding out. But as always, things take more work than you expect.

The plot: Show MRI (magnetic resonance images) scans of my brain (yes, my brain) in a 3D applet.

I pulled it off quite nicely I think, however there are some problems I was hoping you guys could give me some advice on.

1) The scans are placed on a thin slice as a texture, the slices (object3D's) are then made transparent(0), however -- it's still very hard to see "inside" the brain without moving the slices further apart.

Can anyone think of a way to make this look better?

In the actual applet you can swirl the scans around using the arrow buttons, but unfortunately my service provider doesn't allow applets to read files (textures) from the server itself. So I only have images to show.

Here are the screenshots:






What do you think?

Cool screens!
Is that Michael Jackson there in the middle?  :lol:

Just kidding. What's your project about?

Sorry, you got me there.
I still haven't figured out how to use textures (except when specifically assigned to an object, like with md2 models and such). I also haven't quite learned the difference between Soft/Hardware rendering, so this question is like the mother of all questions to me :lol:

Would be difficult to draw characters on that billboarded quad? Something like using the Java API to draw the characters on an image and then applying the image as a texture on the billboarded quad would be the right approach?

Hi meinfilter.

Actually, I've been wondering about the same thing. I've pondered as far as using char ASCII values and having a texture with characters at corresponding 'cutout' points similar to the jPCT FPS demo's frames-per-second blitting. Seems tedious, however.

Can anyone point out a better, general way of blitting Strings?

Hey.
Thanks for compliments.

Regarding resolution/downloadable versions, jpeg often does look better, especially if someone wants to make the logo larger (e.g. in a splash-screen) than the actual gif here on the forums and main webpage.

Unfortunately I didn't produce this one with vector graphics. But Helge does have a high-rez version which should be sufficient for t-shirt printing.

Looks cool on the startup screen

Great, thanks guys.

Man, java interfaces can be confusing. Just "finished" working out the framework for operable objects, animated objects and trigger objects -- while multiple inheritance is a necessity, it sure is quite messy sometimes.

Next I'll try out the game timing.

Hello ... erh, War of the Zeth.  :wink:

You seem to be as ambitious as I am. Sounds like quite a mission, I wish you the best of luck with it and look forward to seeing it take off.

-Hrafn "Raven".