2 results about "Plasma effect" patented technology

The plasma effect is a computer-based visual effect animated in real-time. It uses cycles of changing colours warped in various ways to give an illusion of liquid, organic movement. Plasma was the name of a VGA graphics demo created by Bret Mulvey in 1988 and released on CompuServe. It used a diamond-square algorithm to generate a 2D pattern, and then cycled the colors using VGA's hardware palette in its 256-color mode.