Beginner Programmer Seeks Creative Ideas for Graphics Project

[Ali Inam]

I am just a beginner of programming and till now I have done much simple programming, just like printing multiplication tables or different sequences of (*) using FOR Loop.

Now, last week, my teacher introduced us to the new graphics mode of the Turbo C, and at the end of a lesson, she asked to to make a satisfactory program by next wednesday which must include different graphics. The graphics which I have learned so far is to make colourful circles, lines or ellipses.

Now I need some advice because I can't really figure out what I really should make. First I thought about simple circles and lines, then I realized that is would be too simple.

Any help please, or simple ideas. I am just a beginner !

Thanks a lot !

 

[Borek]

Reads like a post from the past.

Most likely graphic modes are not of Turbo C, but of graphic card.

Argh, I have a lot of sources with nice examples of what can be done, but they won't run under Windows.

Simple idea - try to draw a plot of an interesting function, like abs(cos(k*x)*exp(-x^2)), with both axes and distance marks visible.

 

[airborne18]

Reads like a post from the past.

Most likely graphic modes are not of Turbo C, but of graphic card.

Argh, I have a lot of sources with nice examples of what can be done, but they won't run under Windows.

Simple idea - try to draw a plot of an interesting function, like abs(cos(k*x)*exp(-x^2)), with both axes and distance marks visible.

Yes it does. Turbo-c ( forget the name.. BGI borland graphics interface?).. had a nice library that would iterate the support graphics modes of your video card.

I remember there was some sort of quasi standard numerical codes for the modes.. like 0 - 16 for the vga cards, and 0 - 255 for the super vga??

just reminiscing really. This does take me back to when Borland ruled.

 

[Borek]

You don't want to get me started on bgi and VGA programming. BGI worked for both Turbo C and Turbo Pascal, but if you really wanted to do something interesting you had to directly program VGA card. VGA card standard graphic modes were not better than 320*200*256 (13h) and 640*480*16, although with some tweaking (so called mode x for 256 colors) it was able to display better ones (but only if it was a full VGA, with 256 kB of video memory, earlier and cheaper models could have only 64 or 128 kB). Super VGA was never a standard, each maker had its own version of graphic modes, that got sorted out with VESA standard.

Good old times I still have many of my Pascal programs doing fancy things on VGA card, just no computer to play with them My mode x voxel terrain demo made even its way to Pascal SWAG.