8-bit Color Cycling with HTML5
July 26th, 20108-bit Color Cycling with HTML5. Euh what? A few years ago, video cards could only render 256 colors at a time. So it was very hard to do nice animations. That’s why they invented color cycling. Certain pixel areas cylce through a palette of colors to suggest animation. A very simple idea with a really nice aesthetical outcome.
Joseph Huckaby adapted this principle to HTML5 (forget about Internet Explorer) and brought some artwork by Mark Ferrari to life. Check out these examples. And if you’re up for it, here‘s some more information.
found via @mrdoob
July 28th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Computer animation at it’s best! take that avatar! i’m not kidding!
July 29th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
[...] on Today and Tomorrow, this will bring back memories. If you’re interested in more of these pay a visit to Mark [...]
July 30th, 2010 at 4:58 am
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August 11th, 2010 at 4:53 pm
[...] aus meiner Altersklasse – immerwährend im Retrofieber sind. Deshalb war ich sehr erfreut bei today and tomorrow auf die Arbeiten von Joseph Huckaby zu stoßen. Dieser hat das Prinzip des color cycling auf die [...]
September 15th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
I have seen this method used in a light display. I had a rotating drum with different colour lights to change the shading to simulate animation. I think this method was invented before 256 colour graphics cards.
April 20th, 2011 at 3:23 am
Oh my gosh! That looks just like that place from Lord of the Rings, Rivendell
April 30th, 2011 at 9:37 pm
This is really really inspiring. Who would of thought that 8 bit would look so pretty?