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<h2 class="section"> 1.10 Genesis of Crystal Space </h2>
<p>The Crystal Space project was initiated by Jorrit Tyberghein. Here are a few
words from Jorrit, himself.
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<blockquote><p>I created this project by accident. I was always fascinated by games like
Doom, Hexen, Duke Nukem 3D and later Quake and I wondered how one would write
such a game. My first effort was a Doom like engine. It had some nice
features (like static lighting with shadows and sectors above other sectors)
but it was <em>very slow</em>! I abandoned the project (it became a bit clumsy)
and forgot about 3D for a short while. But the urge was still there. Every
now and then I would think about 3D engines. But I wasn't thinking about Doom
anymore. I wanted something more. After months of thinking I still wasn't
planning to start writing code. But then I read an article about portals. I
wasn't sure what they were but from the little explanation in that article
things started to become clear. Portals were the perfect way for me to write
a 3D engine quickly. It was a very easy technique with which I could achieve
real 6<small>DOF</small> 3D! At that point the knowledge I gathered during the past few
months had to get out of my head. In a bit more than one month I wrote the
first version of Crystal Space (during my free time). At that point I had a
portal engine with 6<small>DOF</small>, colored static lighting with shadows, primitive
scripting, mipmapping and moving objects. Since time became a precious
resource I decided to release Crystal Space to the general public and put an
announcement on the newsgroup <samp>‘comp.graphics.algorithms’</samp>. And this was
the start of the Crystal Space project.
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<p>I must say that I didn't expect the kind of response that I got (I received
mails from hundreds of people and all were very positive). Many thanks to all
of you.
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<p>Jorrit can be reached via email at <a href="mailto:jorrit.tyberghein@gmail.com">jorrit.tyberghein@gmail.com</a>.
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