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Old 09-17-2004, 04:45 PM   #21
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This is true. I tell everyone that see's these programs that they are always making changes for the better.
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Old 09-17-2004, 06:20 PM   #22
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Threads of exectution

Originally posted by JimO'Connor
I think I have a workable optimization idea for the debris to cut its computational cost by about 70%. Goldfish shipped, but that doesn't mean we're done with it. Same for MA and MAT, by the way.
Cool

While you're at it, can you take half the debris particles and let one thread of excution handle them, while a second thread handles the remaining particles? Maybe the left and right sides of the tank is possibly the way to group them.

This implementation would take better advantage of my dual CPUs and I like that Almost as much as my daily glass of beer
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Old 09-17-2004, 06:30 PM   #23
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Explain the behavior

Originally posted by feldon28
And you've proceeded to clutter this work of art with, well, clutter. Poor Eric...
OK, but why are the fish munching at my hard drive. Do they know that the file system catalog file has a bad key length? The little stinkers!

But no worries, tonight I backup the hard drive using Firewire Target Mode and my QuickSilver with its shiny new 200MB ATA/133 Maxtor hard drive. Then I will boot up the G5 using my brand new Alsoft Disk Warrior CDROM and FIX that bad key!

Maybe then the fish will find someting else to amuse themselves. To try to keep this post somewhat on topic, can anybody give us a bit of info on just how these fish are made to move as they do?
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Old 09-18-2004, 06:08 AM   #24
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Jim,

I would be glad to look at the wireframe mode if I could.
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Old 09-18-2004, 08:59 AM   #25
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Maybe we could get the "Beta" removed from the forum name now? If you're asking me to post a screen shot of wireframe, that is certainly do-able.
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Old 09-18-2004, 12:37 PM   #26
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Graduation to 1.0

Originally posted by JimO'Connor
Maybe we could get the "Beta" removed from the forum name now? If you're asking me to post a screen shot of wireframe, that is certainly do-able.
Agreed Goldfish Aquarium for Macintosh has graduated to release status and gone gold, so it's time formalize that in the forum's name.
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Old 09-20-2004, 07:26 PM   #27
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Sorry for the delay, I've been very busy the last few days. "Beta" has now been removed from the title.

So where is my wireframe shot?
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Old 09-23-2004, 12:48 AM   #28
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Originally posted by Jav400
So where is my wireframe shot?


Want more? Bigger?
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Old 09-23-2004, 01:55 AM   #29
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Don't forget "faster" and "better"...
Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think.

"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says,
'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'
I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
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Old 09-23-2004, 03:27 AM   #30
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Originally posted by Tiny Turtle
More? Bigger? Faster? Better? Snappier?
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Old 09-23-2004, 04:11 AM   #31
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Of course
Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think.

"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says,
'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'
I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
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Old 09-23-2004, 05:49 AM   #32
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sheesh Tiny, you forgot an Oompa Loompa.
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Old 09-23-2004, 08:22 AM   #33
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hehehehehe
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Old 09-23-2004, 11:47 AM   #34
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Originally posted by Jav400
Jim,

I would be glad to look at the wireframe mode if I could.
Here is a nice big screen shot of the GA application in wireframe model. It's been heavily compressed to reduce its size so it can be uploaded. Enjoy fans!
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Old 09-23-2004, 12:51 PM   #35
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I wouldn't mind the overall size being slightly smaller, I hate having to scroll to see anything, and I run at 1600x1200.
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Old 09-23-2004, 01:10 PM   #36
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No problem

Originally posted by Jav400
I wouldn't mind the overall size being slightly smaller, I hate having to scroll to see anything, and I run at 1600x1200.
Here is another screen grab of the GA wireframe at 1600x1024. I've needed way less compression for this one. Of course this screen grab was trivial to make compared to the previous post
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Old 10-11-2004, 11:55 PM   #37
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With all the screen-captures being posted, I have to ask.

My machine was set up with a screen-capture of MA (done in OS9 to avoid jaggies) as the wallpaper and Backlight running MA over it, so there were always fish, it was just a question of whether they were moving or not. Then, I switched to GA and discovered that I couldn't do a 'clean' screen capture in OSX and I couldn't run it at *all* in OS9. Is there a way to do a nice, clean screen capture so I can make a wallpaper still with the fish and prefs I like?
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Old 10-12-2004, 12:33 AM   #38
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How clean is clean?

Originally posted by Polcamilla
With all the screen-captures being posted, I have to ask.

Then, I switched to GA and discovered that I couldn't do a 'clean' screen capture in OSX and I couldn't run it at *all* in OS9. Is there a way to do a nice, clean screen capture so I can make a wallpaper still with the fish and prefs I like?
Can you show us an example of what your unclean screen capture in OS X look like.

The screen shots that I have posted were all made with the incredible stupendous SnapxProX available from http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/ and while its not free it will run in trial mode for a while.

The other way to take a screen shot in Mac OS X that works with GA is to do a COMMAND SHIFT 4 and rubber band a selection from the GA application in your /Applications folder. Like this:
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Old 10-12-2004, 01:03 AM   #39
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Re: How clean is clean?

Originally posted by johnblommers
The other way to take a screen shot in Mac OS X that works with GA is to do a COMMAND SHIFT 4 and rubber band a selection from the GA application in your /Applications folder. Like this:
I go to full screen mode, and cmd-shift-3 to put a pdf on the desktop.

Interestingly, this works fine with the goldfish aquarium, but not with marine aquarium. MA ends up with big black bands running horizontally in the screenshot.

Also interesting, if you do a cmd-shift-4 then press spacebar to capture the window (the crosshairs turn into a camera) you get a messed up screenshot, too.

So i guess it's either A) Fullscreen cmd-shift-3 or B) what johnblommers said.
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Old 10-12-2004, 09:47 AM   #40
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Thanks!

I was doing CMD-Shift-4 and getting messed up images. Doing CMD-Shift-3 in full-screen mode works fine!
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