G+_Alexander Kettler Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Hey guys, Space! Stars & Clouds is here! Showing stunning views of stars and interstellar gas clouds on your home screen. Think of pictures from hubble space telescope, in 3D! Free Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codekonditor.space XL Version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codekonditor.xl.space Enjoy! I hope you like it :-) Alex? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Robert Moreno Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 So sick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jose C Martinez Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 I think Jason Howell? ??featured a similar app not too long ago. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Fred Schmitthammer Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Love it... Great work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Reuben Fergusson Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Is it just me or is it quite low resolution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Alexander Kettler Posted December 31, 2015 Author Share Posted December 31, 2015 Reuben Fergusson The app uses a downscaled background-buffer to do the rendering of the clouds. (Because of the excessive "overdrawing" it would otherwise be too slow on high-res displays). The stars are then blended in again in high-res using my super secret blending algorithm ;-). As the clouds are blurred objects anyway, you usually should not notice the downscaling. Using the quality setting you can control the size of the background-buffer to some extent... Or were you talking about the gif? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Reuben Fergusson Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Alexander Kettler? nope you explained it all. :-) I'll play with the quality setting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Edward Coffey Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Alexander Kettler Great wallpaper, thanks. One suggestion: could you damp the response to orientation a little? Not so much that it feels laggy, just enough that when your device gets bumped (such as when you set it down on a table) it doesn't jolt the viewport quite so suddenly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Alexander Kettler Posted January 1, 2016 Author Share Posted January 1, 2016 Thanks Edward Coffey :-) have you tried to adjust the strength of the parallax effect already? Probably this is what you are looking for. There is a slider for that in the settings menu. Or do you rather think about some sort of filtering of the gyroscope readings? I could experiment with that a bit, but the downside is that it would also affect the overall responsiveness of the parallax effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Edward Coffey Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Yep, tried reducing parallax and it helps just by reducing the magnitude of the jitter, but it's still there. If simple smoothing (e.g. filtering high-frequencies out of the position signal) makes it too laggy I was thinking you could cap the acceleration/jerk so that under normal use there's no impact, but particularly sudden movements are prevented. That's probably way more complexity than you want to think about though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Alexander Kettler Posted January 2, 2016 Author Share Posted January 2, 2016 Edward Coffey? In the end it all comes down to discriminating by some sort of way wether a movement is being made intentionally or not. Capping could indeed help to filter out unwanted spikes in the signal. I will give it a try. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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