Ok, I''m assuming you all watch at least a little of Cartoon Network. Theres a ad there, where its advertising saturday action cartoons. They make it part of it look like a stylized old-school green+black monitor. Heres what I think: Make a all-green-shaded engine, in which all objects are cubes or composites thereof, which the cube wire-frame outlined. Would that have a good cool value ? ~V''lion Bugle4d

What you are thinking of is a voxel engine. Assuming you''re in 3D. They are really cool, but sadly, they are CPU heavy, because video cards are more interested in triangles, rather than voxels.

Here is a picture of a triangle mesh being converted into voxels. Voxel Triangle Mesh

hopefully, this helps.

Yes; kind of.

Most voxel engines focus on high detail; I would shoot for a blocky look.

The think I am thinking of is a large voxel deal; it would look similar to a super mario bros type of resolution.

I guess what it would be is more of an art engine rather than a full-fledged game engine. :-)

[edited by - Vlion on March 12, 2003 12:44:58 AM]

While we''re on the topic of "e-cubism", why not write a renderer that generates ouput along the lines of The White Stripes'' Fell In Love With A Girl. Just for the art of it.

Using PyOpenGL and Python, somebody could probably throw it together in a couple hours. If it looks cool, an optimized C++ version could be written (useful for a retro or dream sequence in an adventure game, for example).

that white stripes video is a great work of art. i''ve allways suspected that it was done on a computer. does anyone know if it was done with actual lego bricks or on a computer at all?

According to a Pop-Up Video episode I saw most of it was legos, but the two shots of their faces were highly pixelated and they wore make up to enhance the contrasts.