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Welcome to Spontz's Quintessence, a demo we tried to present at the Breakpoint 2009,
but that  had so many  technical problems in the compo machine that we  resisted the
temptation and reserved the code for a fure event.

And that event happened in Arles (France),  within the MainParty IV party.  Although
not all  the problems were solved  (we still had some shaders that were only working
in ATI cards and not nVidia)  the demo was in a condition good enough to be shown in
in the big screen.

The concept  behind this production  is a bit diffuse.  It started as a elucubration
of several space scenes  in which there were some physical laws that were distorted,
but then  was slightly moved to a  concept involucrating the  mind and the  creative
process.Then came the last scene, in which the human being evades the limits imposed
by the beliefs and religions,while elevates itself higher and higher, leaving behind
the world in which he born. So, it's really a mixture of excuses in order to test
several massive particle routines we are working on.

Finally,  already in  the party,  xphere and drumu added some final touches,  like a
fading transition between two scenes and loading screens while I (merlucin) improved
and accelerated some of the slowest effects.

This demo was entirely coded using a MacBook Pro from 2006 with a cracked video card,
which means that the machine was freezing every 15 minutes more or less.This computer
features an  ATI Radeon x1600 video card,  that is far away of the Intel GMA950 cards
present in lots of MacBooks.  This is the reason that could cause the demo not to run
very well in current machines using the GMA950 adapter.

Some of the effects also use the Computer's CPU heavily, but this sould not be a
problem since my computer is a bit old.

The music  was composed  by Dynimix,  before leaving the demoscene.  It is one of the
last  songs  he  composed,  and this will be probably the  last demo using  Dynimix's
tracks since a hard disk failure ended  with the small collection  of songs he leaved
to me.

Thanks for watching!


        alezander_chn • drumu • dynimix • isaac2 • merlucin • xphere