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Rotozoom !!!! i love them ! it's the true revolution. after sinuscroll and before mapping, rotozoom is the link between these two ages.

and radial blur like in Ukonx - MyWorld demo.

Also, I love it when lots of effects are blended on top of eachother and stuff. Can't remember what does that offhand, though. You'll have to fill in urls yourself :)

Popsy Team's petals in VIP2. In fact, all their particle stuff rocks.

Bump, Yeah !

Windows' "Starfield Simulation"-screensaver of course ;)

the hypnotizing effects in this strange eye candy prog i have called "aux2" are the best.

reverie

definately the bouncing disco-light-sphere in nexus7.

shadebobs and glenz vectors - the mom&dad of the blending modes everyone loves to hate nowadays =)

I like what clever tricks Amiga did by using bitplanes logic..

rotating additive planes on top of each other

it's something i've never seen before. quite impressive.

as for the old stuff, pulse/orange/cncd/acme/sunflower/blasphemy have some of the best
effects ive ever seen in their demos.

Chaos' 256x256 pixel 3d-twisting-blabla-roto-zoomer in Roots/Sanity is technically ruling the amiga IMO. Running 50fps on an unexpanded A1200...
Some heavy triggering of the scroll-registers of the amiga and still amazing even when you know how it works.

Hate to disappoint you, spin, but the texture is 16x16 :)

Anyway, the effect still rocks, yup.

Best effect:
tunnel/radial blur/voxel

Oh, shit yeah! Voxels rule...! I hereby retract my vote for sine bobs.

HEYYYYYYY !!!! guys !!!!!! :)
u're burn my eyes !!! :)
btw. u're good !

iguana's heartquake water effect still remains for me as the effect that most surprised me... and it's done in pascal.

There are tons of effects that made me go "WOW!" first time I saw it. Some examples:
32 sprite multiplexed D.Y.S.P. in "Larch3/Bones" (C64)
Bitmap rotozoom in "Desert Dream/Kefrens" (Amiga)
Cylinder-spike thing in "Gateways/Trauma" (PC)

ryg: I know, with 256x256 I meant the overall size of the effect.

Best effects ever: Fractal landscape, hidden line vectors and the scroller in F.A.K.E.

All in one frame on plain C64 - respect!

digital matrix/legend design had some nice effects... and also morphing.. ;)

not to forget the effects seen in verses/emf, and flight/kosmic.
tunnel effects like in porno/emf and xtal/complex are neat!!

The best effect ever made is when puppiluppan gives the kaktus a yllekofta in Poffelipoffs demo Blomman

Synscroll & overscan: TCB cuddly demos
Parallax multiscrolls, bobs: Dragons megademo
And OVH releases :))