"year, programmer Ólafur Waage dove into how a bunch of clever folks not only got Doom running on an orbital satellite last year, but also how they were able to replace the game's background image of the terrain and skies of Hell with photos of Earth taken by the satellite ( h/t Tom's Hardware). It was no easy feat, but it resulted in a new frontier"
"After getting Doom to run without graphical output, as proof it could be done, the team was not only able to get actual graphics running with the game in software rendering mode, but it was also able to swap out Doom's fictional skybox with real images of the Earth, processed by a machine learning algorithm to adapt to Doom's strict palette limit of 256 colors. The team had to tweak the color palet"
Ubuntu Summit featured a demonstration of Doom running on an orbital satellite. Ólafur Waage worked on a C++ port and collaborated with Georges Labrèche from the European Space Agency to target the ESA's OP-SAT satellite. OP-SAT provided an experimental platform built from mostly off-the-shelf parts in a suitcase-sized device. The team first verified Doom running without graphical output, then enabled software rendering to produce actual graphics. The team replaced Doom's fictional skybox with photos of Earth captured by the satellite. A machine learning algorithm processed the images to conform to Doom's strict 256-color palette, and the team tweaked the palette accordingly.
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