Skybox
Skybox may refer to:
Skybox (video games)
A skybox is a method of creating backgrounds to make a computer and video games level look bigger than it really is. When a skybox is used, the level is enclosed in a cuboid. The sky, distant mountains, distant buildings, and other unreachable objects are projected onto the cube's faces (using a technique called cube mapping), thus creating the illusion of distant three-dimensional surroundings. A skydome employs the same concept but uses either a sphere or a hemisphere instead of a cube.
Processing of 3D graphics is computationally expensive, especially in real-time games, and poses multiple limits. Levels have to be processed at tremendous speeds, making it difficult to render vast skyscapes in real time. Additionally, realtime graphics generally have depth buffers with limited bit-depth, which puts a limit on the amount of details that can be rendered at a distance.
To compensate for these problems, games often employ skyboxes. Traditionally, these are simple cubes with up to 6 different textures placed on the faces. By careful alignment, a viewer in the exact middle of the skybox will perceive the illusion of a real 3D world around it, made up of those 6 faces.
Skybox (band)
Skybox is an American indie pop quintet that formed in Tempe, Arizona in 2005.
After singer Tim Ellis moved from Missouri to Tempe with bassist Johnny Kenepaske, they soon formed a trio with drummer Aurelio Damiani. Finally, pianist-lead guitarist and vocalist Christian Fields, and keyboardist-percussionist Anthony Hornyak joined. Their musical influences include 1960s psychedelic rock, 1970s classic rock and 1980s new wave music.
Bassist-vocalist Jeff Gonzales replaced Kenepaske, and the band relocated to Chicago. They released their 14-track debut album Arco Iris in 2006, which was recorded by Jamie Woolford (The Stereo, Let Go) and mastered by Jason Livermore (The Ataris, Rise Against, MxPx).
The band was praised by Billboard magazine, among others. The band's song 'In A Dream' was later featured in an iPod commercial.
Gonzales, Hornyak, Damiani, and bassist Dan Ingenthron later left the band. The present lineup formed in 2010. The band's second studio album, produced by Sean O'Keefe (Fall Out Boy, Motion City Soundtrack, The Plain White T's) titled Morning After Cuts was released in January 2010.
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- Morning After Cuts released: 2010
- Arco Iris released: 2006
Arco Iris
Released 2006- The Caravan Cabaret
- Disco Duck
- Silly Things That People Say
- Superglued To My Spaceship
- Various Kitchen Utensils
- Infinity And Blue Skies
- It's A Bumpy Ride On The Back Of A Camel
- The Lass, The Bitch, And The Butcher
- Cue Conversation
- Bee Mee
- Gravity Can't Keep Us Down (Unless We're On Earth)
- The Devil's Road
- Werewolf
- Don't Get Spin Spin
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Plastic Cups
by: SkyboxWe were waiting for one more day
We were searching for a place to stay
I can hear you through a hole in space
I can stay here where I know I'm safe
We can pour all our happiness into a plastic cup
We can face this alone, we can build us a plastic place to get us through
Things have gotten really out of hand
We were staring to your open sky
We were shrinking, we didn't know why
We can sleep here in your house of ice
You're eyelashes(?) cover my broken eyes
We can pour all our emptiness into a plastic cup
We don't have anything left, so won't you build us a plastic place to get us through
Things have gotten really out of hand
You force us inside, you never gave us a chance to survive
And the taste of her guilt is like a sweet plastic pie that could never go down
We can pour all our happiness into a plastic cup
We don't have anything left, so won't you build us a plastic place to get us through
