NAPALM first test

First test video of NAPALM (freeware to draw in fire ink over your Windows desktop).

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And don't take it too seriously, I don't think Linux sucks, I don't even know it. It was only in response to another video using Compiz'es Fire to claim that Windows sucks :)

Song by... no one anymore, for copyright reasons (will redo a video when I will find the time).

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• NAPALM
• Compiz
• Fire

[sillyxone]

try to have a rotating desktop cube with live videos behind that fire

[FireStarterNAPALM]

with just a video it'd be doable, with a real desktop, maybe in Vista

[sillyxone]

just curious, what the performance would be if it's doable in Vista?

on my Ubuntu laptop (Core 2 Duo 1.6GHz), having the word "Linux Sucks" in fire, with this video playing and the cube with 6 sides rotating, one core stays at 28-29%, the other core stays at 2-5% (Intel915 chip)

talking about real desktop, would something like Scale/Expose be your project sometimes? lots will love it.

BTW, the most important is software freedom. Choose your road wisely, a talent without virtue is useless.

[FireStarterNAPALM]

Well, here's what I know about the possible performances of things like this in Windows, starting from XP:

-to draw stuff over your desktop, you use layered windows. Those seem accelerated & pretty fast, there's not a big penalty for a full-screen layer. This probably varies with graphic cards.

-the drawing itself in NAPALM is done by software, but 3D (OpenGL or Direct3D) is doable as well. (continuing in next post)

[FireStarterNAPALM]

So with 3D acceleration, the sky would be the limit, if reading from 3D buffers wasn't so slow. One would expect 30FPS or lower when reading from them, apparently. I suppose this would be faster if it was built-in the Windows composition, as it probably is in Compiz(?).

I'll have to learn about Scale/Expose. Honnestly I will probably keep doing little independent gadgets like fire, messing with system stuff in Windows brings too much frustration.

[FireStarterNAPALM]

And on my AMD 3500+ (single core), a little text (but it really depends on the size) over this video eats around 40% CPU. It's all software, though, the blur eats a lot, and the particles are real circles with lots of sines (well optimized but still slower than sprites). With 3D I'd get full freedom but a big penalty when reading the buffer.

[gogl92]

haha stupid windows user, he think that XP is good

[SiccWeed]

This is awesome! I just drew a line at the bottom of my screen to give my taskbar a fire effect

[megafartproductions]

Making a video like this in windows and say that Linux sucks will give ya many dislikes :P

[shanejoel2]

Wow. that was gay. trying spinning a cube with 800 processes running and 3 different videos all without breaking a sweat in linux.

[zxchoose]

your mother suck!

[fuckryou]

What a moron! No any Windows will run that easy with a program like compiz run on Linux. Unless ms fucked-up jew invest in it and then rape you on your money like this guy. On the other hand you got Linux which is free from viruses morons and as bonus you get the whole fucking house not just a couple of windows. Of course you wont get it cause you are a moron.

[deadbringerdk26]

Linux DO NOT SUCKS

windows DO NOT SUCKS

Mac DO TOTALY SOCKS

[fdh2006]

@HIDDENTECH2 linux servers are a very high value target, yet most virus writers give up. I think even if 99% of people used linux desktops, there still would be few linux viruses.

[HIDDENTECH2]

@RetroShinigami Do you know a virus its just a PROGRAM right ?

there is no virus for Linux for the same reason why there is no virus for MAC . Linux virus must be well-crafted and innovative to succeed in the inhospitable Linux OS ( not many ppl know how to make programs for Linux. ) No one wants to make a virus for an OS that last than 5% of the people use it . 90% of the computer in the world are PC WINDOWS .

Linux is not harder to hack , its just that not many people now how 8=D