https://github.com/drewish/alienlander

Inspired by the landing screen Alan Sutcliffe created for Alien.
https://github.com/drewish/alienlander

Last synced: 3 months ago
JSON representation

Inspired by the landing screen Alan Sutcliffe created for Alien.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/drewish/alienlander
• Owner: drewish
• Created: 2014-10-31T02:28:53.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-10-18T02:24:37.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-06T04:30:48.592Z (3 months ago)
• Language: C++
• Size: 4.79 MB
• Stars: 9
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

Awesome Lists containing this project

README

        
# Alien Lander

I’ve been playing around trying to replicate the amazing computer graphics [Alan

Sutcliffe](http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/52263) created for the [landing

sequence](https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_carl/6047866844/in/set-72157627318864775/)

in the 1979 movie Alien. Mr Sutcliffe wrote [an amazing article about his "Magic

Mountains"](https://archive.org/stream/creativecomputing-1981-06/Creative_Computing_v07_n06_1981_June?ui=embed#page/n53/mode/2up)

project in the June 1981 issue of Creative Computing that explains his technique

in detail.

![Screenshot](PREVIEW.png)

I'm taking a much lazier approach and just throwing modern CPU at it. My version

uses Cinder 0.9.x and requires OpenGL 3.2.

Right now it just lets you fly across a low resolution [height map of the United

States](http://bit-player.org/2009/long-division).

Credits:

- [16-segment font](http://www.msarnoff.org/alpha32/)

- [Map of US](http://bit-player.org/2009/long-division)