About: Medusa effect   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

The Medusa effect occurs when there is more than one patch occupying the same column in any middle texture of a two-sided linedef that is visible in the display window. Due to a game engine limitation, these will not display properly. The area where the middle texture would be displayed is instead a series of multicolored horizontal lines. This 'wall' of multicolored lines appears to extend infinitely into the floor. Moving close to the wall will make the framerate in vanilla Doom slow to a crawl and make play nearly impossible until the offending wall is out of view.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Medusa effect
rdfs:comment
  • The Medusa effect occurs when there is more than one patch occupying the same column in any middle texture of a two-sided linedef that is visible in the display window. Due to a game engine limitation, these will not display properly. The area where the middle texture would be displayed is instead a series of multicolored horizontal lines. This 'wall' of multicolored lines appears to extend infinitely into the floor. Moving close to the wall will make the framerate in vanilla Doom slow to a crawl and make play nearly impossible until the offending wall is out of view.
dcterms:subject
abstract
  • The Medusa effect occurs when there is more than one patch occupying the same column in any middle texture of a two-sided linedef that is visible in the display window. Due to a game engine limitation, these will not display properly. The area where the middle texture would be displayed is instead a series of multicolored horizontal lines. This 'wall' of multicolored lines appears to extend infinitely into the floor. Moving close to the wall will make the framerate in vanilla Doom slow to a crawl and make play nearly impossible until the offending wall is out of view. The effect is named for Medusa, the creature in Greek mythology who had live snakes for hair and was so ugly that a single glance at her would turn the beholder to stone.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software