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TMDC7 Site Launched

Posted by: jetro at July 14, 2004 2:22:02 PM

TMDC is the pseudo-annual Text Mode Demo Competition, a demo-making contest held over the internet. The seventh TMDC will be held in 2004 around 11.11. - 12.12.

The competition web site is available at address http://tAAt.fi/tmdc/.

Slogan of the TMDC this year is "Demo or Die".

TMDC7 is again organized by tAAt ry, which is a registered non-commercial organization in Finland, and it aims to promote demo-making culture.

Text mode demos offer unique challenges for the demo maker which play a very insignificant role in other kinds of demo ompetitions. First of all, resolution and color spaces are rather limited, forcing the demo authors to consider different forms of anti-aliasing and careful adjustment of contrast and color balance.

Additionally the demo authors will not have any hardware-assisted rendering, forcing them to create their own rasterization methods, while giving them a huge amount of CPU power per pixel. Things like per-pixel real-time raytracing are a realistic choice in text mode demos.