One day I was in the gadget shop and was playing with a 'sand suspended in water' toy when the thought occurred that a computer model of this toy would be very simple to implement and would only cost a few hours of work as opposed to £10 of my hard earned.
Anyway here's the result: SnowScene.zip (117kb)
Instruction:
Not a lot of instructions really, its all automatic I am afraid. If enough people ask I may put an options menu so you can control things like amount of snow, load in new bitmaps, snow colour etc..
When the snow settles the 'gravity' is flipped and the snow falls to the top of the screen (simply because the one in the gadget shop could do that too.)
To change the bitmap edit the PIC.bmp file. Restrictions for modifying the bitmap are that the picture dimensions must be 640x480, and do you must not obscure the top few lines otherwise the snow cannot be properly placed and you may hang the program (hey I said it was just a simple toy ok!)
hit Escape to quit when your done.
Please send any comments to Allan.Bentham@btinternet.com
Last updated : 14/09/99
Copyright (c) 1999 Allan Bentham