NoooN
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NoooN was a French group in the PC
demoscene
. They are currently inactive. Known for the technical prowess of its members and the quality of their productions, NoooN won the Assembly '95 demo compo with the demonstration Stars which remains a reference for many members of the scene. Coded entirely in assembler
, like the majority of the other productions of the group, with fast speed on Pentium PCs of the time, Stars contained a famous sequence with a bee in 3D and a message affirming that 23806 polygons were displayed. Such a value was impressive, but it actually had fewer faces and an environment mapping effect which gave an illusion of smoothness. Many effects were new, in particular a 3D face appearing starting from a plane surface and a torus reflected in an environment map.
IBM PC compatible
IBM PC compatible computers are those generally similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT. Such computers used to be referred to as PC clones, or IBM clones since they almost exactly duplicated all the significant features of the PC architecture, facilitated by various manufacturers' ability to...
demoscene
Demoscene
The demoscene is a computer art subculture that specializes in producing demos, which are non-interactive audio-visual presentations that run in real-time on a computer...
. They are currently inactive. Known for the technical prowess of its members and the quality of their productions, NoooN won the Assembly '95 demo compo with the demonstration Stars which remains a reference for many members of the scene. Coded entirely in assembler
Assembly language
An assembly language is a low-level programming language for computers, microprocessors, microcontrollers, and other programmable devices. It implements a symbolic representation of the machine codes and other constants needed to program a given CPU architecture...
, like the majority of the other productions of the group, with fast speed on Pentium PCs of the time, Stars contained a famous sequence with a bee in 3D and a message affirming that 23806 polygons were displayed. Such a value was impressive, but it actually had fewer faces and an environment mapping effect which gave an illusion of smoothness. Many effects were new, in particular a 3D face appearing starting from a plane surface and a torus reflected in an environment map.
Members
- Olivier "RA" Béchard (b. 1974) - graphics artist
- Frédéric "Moby" Motte (b. 1970) - musician
Ex-members and contributors
- Karl "Karl" Alexandre - 2D/system coder
- Laurent "Barti!" Cancé - 3D coder
- Sami "Groo" Järvinen - Musician
Productions
- Ace BBStro (1996)
- Cob (1996)
- Heaven (1995)
- Huge Crowd (1996)
- No! (1994)
- Stars (1995)
- The Ufo project (1995)