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;	>> Bob Ross - The Joy of Pixeling the Walls at the Disco <<
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;	A 256 bytes intro for the Atari 800 XL by JAC! on 2016-10-25
;	Requires Atari XL OS REV C due to dirty nasty direct calls.
;	Released in the 256 bytes compo at SillyVenture 2016 in Gdansk.
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;	This started long ago with the idea to generate pixel stuff in 1k
; 	when I saw some nice PC procedural graphics. The idea evolved into
;	the plan to generate the different planets of the solar system.
;	As it turned out with single byte precision, the radius of the
;	planets was too limited. So I looked for something that could be 
;	created out of smaller balls and ran into the "30 years Amiga juggler"
; 	post somewhere on Facebook. I was hooked and tried getting the
;	coordinates and animation right based on a great article about it,
;	but I soon realized that the rendering of the man alone with single
;	balls and some 8 animation frames would take hours. So nothing
; 	suitable for a party where everything is shown live on real hardware. 
;	Sillyventure came closer and closer and having just one week left
;	with nothing to release yet, I decided to go for the 256B compo
;	instead of the intro compo. I spent Sunday getting the shaded circle
;	routine running and designing the man. Monday, I took a day off for
;	crunching it from 489B to 256B. The biggest obstacle turned out to
;	be the size of the data for the man. 18 balls with 5 parameters
;	(crunched into 4 bytes each) left me with 178 bytes for the code.
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;	The idea for the title and the way the man is drawn came up the day
;	before I actually started coding when I zapped into one of the great
;	"Bob Ross - The joy of painting" shows at 02:00 AM. I saw how he
;	painted layer on layer to the canvas to create the depth effect.
;	And there was this unique noise caused by the way he uses the brush,
;	so this had to be in somehow. Not to mention that the ball man head
;	comes quite close to Bob Ross' classic hairstyle.
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;	Created using WUDSN IDE. Visit http://www.wudsn.com to see more.
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