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Some 3D Desktop Toys

Searching for what could make a nice little demo of Unicode in 3D, here’s what I came up with:

Hiragana Cube Cube toys to learn hiragana :)

(Source code /  Windows executable – rar’ed / Linux executable – tar’ed)
(Note: This looks for the Arial Unicode MS font, if it can’t find it you won’t see the hiragana)

I made it float on the Windows desktop using alpha-blending…

Then I got carried away and wanted to see how easy it would be to make something similar to Corey Tabaka‘s color spheres:

Color Spheres (Source code / Windows executable – rar’ed / Linux executable – tar’ed)

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4 Responses to “Some 3D Desktop Toys”

  1. Corey Tabaka says:
    November 12, 2007 at 5:11 pm

    Hey, very cool. I’m glad to see someone got something out of one of my demos.

  2. admin says:
    November 12, 2007 at 5:30 pm

    Hey very nice of you to drop me a comment :) Thanks for passing by, for proving to me this OpenGL + alpha blending could be done and for the color spheres inspiration…
    I’m actually working on getting all this alpha blending stuff to work in Linux right now, and I should have a Linux version of those 3D toys soon.

  3. hinchy says:
    November 2, 2011 at 7:47 am

    FYI the windows demo will work with compatibility mode set to windows 200 and below (only tested on xp)

  4. admin says:
    November 2, 2011 at 8:38 am

    Hmm, I don’t need to set any kind of compatibility mode myself, on 7 or XP?

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