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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 03 2012 @ 06:24 PM EDT |
The Wobbly Windows and String Physics in action on that
video are on an old YT
account of someone I know. He did
that video at 17yo and that's why
the loud
music.. eeek. But he wasn't just good at
tweaking/tuning the code and features
back then, he was a
great member of the Open Source Community and web friends
with them all (including Quinn Storm and MacSlow).
He's actually
showing off the incredible Multi-tasking and
XGL Compositing Engine in Linux
still being used today
(Android too).
That was out way before Windows ripped
it off of Linux too.
Even Apple's OS X didn't have String Physics until they
bought MacSlow's App out of the Open Source Community
(that's a pen name or
alias)!
I don't think there's a better demonstration of these
features
all done in real time on an old Pentium computer
anywhere on the web, by the
way. It's almost like a music
video and these were all very complex actions
most users
couldn't keep up with (including me). It's what makes Linux
so
formidable on web and game servers even today. Apache
still rules the web
running on linux machines, it's
the productivity features that blow the other
proprietary
OS's
away, now even on Android Linux (especially New Galaxy Note
phones and tablets)!
But the complexity of tuning it to work quite
like that
video would be daunting task for any of us ordinary
mortals. Anyway
I found a link to a newer YouTube account
MacSlow is on. He's a German
Developer. But no idea if he's
still coding or has retired on what Apple paid
him. The
dead giveaway here on this being the same MacSlow, is that
he was
known for doing Extreme Sports. Flipping and
Tumbling even indoors over
concrete floors. If you find any
videos of him flipping? He'd be the craziest
one! :D
MacSlow
YouTube
Account
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