This is my collection of selfmade demo-java-applets.

All applets here are 100% pure java, so NO other libraries than the standard sun-packages are
being used. So all applets should be platform-independent. All applets where made using
EditPlus (*great editor!*), Adobe Photoshop (*can't live without it*), and sometimes 3D Studio Max
(for 3d models/scenes).

Why I'm making these things? mmm. These applets are some kind of research, just to find out how
something looks or works. And also, just to proove that Java doesn't suck as hard as many people think ;-)

-- glow (member of inque)

some final comments for most of the applets:

[1]
Most of the older applets had a real bad graphics engine (my first applet used that engine, and it worked
but was really crappy. Didn't work well with Internet Exploder or Java2. But for the let's say 10 applets
that came after the first applet, I just copy-pasted the whole engine-stuff ;()

So the first 10 or 20 applets will probably only work under Netscape Navigator 4.x. All other applets
should work with all browsers (which support java 1.1.3 or higher).

[2]
If the applet stays completely blank and doesn't do anything, it is probably still loading its data
(graphics or so). Since some of these demo-effects have to download up to 130kb of data, it can
take some seconds ...
(okay, okay, I just was to lazy to make a downloadprogressbar...)

[3]
When most of the applets are very slow, or your pc wont react anymore when running one of the applets,
then: buy a real pc!
(since all these thingies are coded on a Celeron 400, they should run smoothly on a Celeron 400 or better!)

[4]
please run all applets in a resolution with 32bit colors!
<since, all applets are coded for 32bit colors>


important, just to make it clear:

From 1998 till the middle of 2001 I was part of a group called 'Freestyle'. During this
time I made most of these applets. But since the middle of 2001 (eh.. guess it was somewhere
in June...) Freestyle has ceized to exist, and 'Inque' was born.

a raytraced free directional plane. developed after being inspired by some linear algebra courses :)     grond | 21-02-2000		my first test to create a free directional tunnel (a raytraced tunnel).     hollow | 02-03-2000		a more complicated version of hollow. a bit more difficult math and stuff, but looks quite cooler than hollow, i guess.     follow | 09-06-2000
quite early version of the mantra 3d engine. lighting isn't done right (no shadows and stuff). at the moment i am porting mantra from java/software-gfx into vc++/OpenGL (with hardware-3d-graphics support). that means that i've stopped working on the mantra 3d engine in java ;)     mantra | 15-04-2000		some kind of twister with a bit of zooming in it. wanted to imitate a cool twister/zoomer i saw in jizz (by tbl). but this thing isnt a good imitation, not that it sucks. but it can (as always) be better ... :)     raffel | 10-06-2000		plasma look-alike. with a picture on top of it (for a nice effect).     raffel2 | 11-06-2000
bump mapping, with colors and a moving lightsource [not optimized ;(].     karma | 12-06-2000		updated / optimized version of follow: a ratrayed tunnel, now with a kind of light effect that looks more realistic.     follow2 | 15-06-2000		strange thing (actually a camera in a sphere with a very small fov). raytraced! (instead of straight-away-polyfilling).     druppel | 15-06-2000
two raytraced spheres moving around, with a lot of blurring! and a single lightsource giving a lighteffect (diffuse and specular lighting;).     bollig | 12-08-2000		yes, some kind of particles! with a ground and a ceiling ;)     placebo | 13-08-2000		particles falling on the ground...     bonk | 13-08-2000
a distorted sphere moving through space, with a light. (actually it had to be a spiked sphere, but somewhere the math didnt do what it had to do... but it looks nice anyway... ;)     punkt | 15-08-2000		my first attempt to create raytraced shadows, casted by an object.     kuub | 20-08-2000		looks quite a lot like kuub, but this time it has a reflection and the ground is also a bit nicer ;) <and slower>     paard | 03-09-2000
some kind of man standing on the ground, with a camera rotating around him. and ofcourse some particles. this is my first test for combining raytracing with polygondrawing.     fungi | 10-10-2000		a raytraced cube with a sphere inside. with a camera in it. and some kind of stretch/smudge effect on it (just wait to see it)     shine | 19-10-2000		an environment-mapped object.     humus | 22-10-2000
some kind of nice stretch effect :) <cool image was made by pixel, thanks!>     fur | 25-10-2000		hmm. some kind of glowing particles.     vision | 01-11-2000		twisting, twirling thing. with env-mapping :)     bla | 05-11-2000
what can i say. hmm. its a tunnel.     vloei | 09-11-2000		duckies, duckies, duckies! (in 400x160 this time)     down | 21-01-2001		a man walking on a small sphere.     void | 28-01-2001
kind of browser independent applet test. guess it works fine. it's quite an 'heavy' applet, since it's twice as large as all the other applets ;)     ruby | 31-12-2000		falling spheres on a plane, with a camera vulturing around. (the physics aren't quite as they should be ;-)     dingdong | 03-03-2001