Tron Cubes 2019

Back in 2004, I played about with 3DS Max and created a simple stack of cubes with a neat neon-reflective look. This simple scene took 2 hours to render at the then-standard resolution of 1024×768 on a pretty beefy 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 and 512 MB RAM. Technology has moved on quite a bit!

I've updated my original work to support the plethora of high-resolutions available these days, and am releasing the source files for free use. There’s a bunch of links below to JPEGs, and lossless PNG images in all sorts of sizes. If you’ve any requests for a specific size please contact kroc@camendesign.com or download and render the scene yourself using 3DS Max 2019 (or above?).

If you just want a wallpaper, opt for the JPG versions;

on some systems large PNG files may cause system slow down!

Make Your Own

For commercial use, printing, editing, remixing and any instance where you need to work with the highest quality source material possible, here is a 48-bit (16 bits per colour channel) PNG file at 8′192 × 8′192 resolution:

TronCubes_1.1_8192x8192_8K_Fulldome.png, PNG 233 MB

You can also play with the original 3D scene in 3DS Max 2019, and above:

3DS Max 2019 Scene and required textures, ZIP 1.63 MB

Note: If 3DS Max cannot find the texture files, you may have to re-assign them in the Material Editor. I cannot provide any technical support relating to 3DS Max. If you download this file, you are 100% on your own! You will probably be asked to use either your system’s gamma level, or the one in the file; it’s probably best to go with the one in the file, I don’t know why it does this but it probably has something to do with the file being transferred from 3DS Max 5.

NB: The images below are not resizes!

Every image here was rendered specifically for the target resolution.

Retro Resolutions

Resolutions suitable for CRTs, Retro Computers and the like.

Resolution Ratio Description Download 320×200 4:3 MS-DOS. Rendered with 8:5 aspect, to be stretched to 4:3 BMP (63.5 KB) PNG (63.1 KB) 320×240 4:3 “QVGA”, MS-DOS BMP (76.0 KB) PNG (84.7 KB) 640×480 4:3 “VGA” JPG (226 KB) PNG (279 KB) 800×600 4:3 “SVGA” JPG (326 KB) PNG (411 KB) 1024×768 4:3 “XGA” JPG (487 KB) PNG (637 KB) 1280×960 4:3 “SXGA-” JPG (705 KB) PNG (958 KB) 1280×1024 5:4 “SXGA”, true 5:4, i.e. TFT JPG (779 KB) PNG (1.02 MB) 1440×1050 4:3 “SXGA+” JPG (837 KB) PNG (1.12 MB) 1600×1200 4:3 “UXGA” JPG (1.00 MB) PNG (1.41 MB)

Handhelds, Tablets & Phones

Resolution Ratio Description Download 480×272 16:9 Sony PSP, Zune HD,

Neo Geo X JPG (109 KB) PNG (127 KB) 640×360 16:9 Nokia Symbian devices? JPG (172 KB) PNG (207 KB) 960×544 16:9 Sony PS Vita JPG (332 KB) PNG (419 KB) 960×640 3:2 iPhone 4S JPG (392 KB) PNG (499 KB) 1136×640 16:9 iPhone 5, 5S, 5C, SE JPG (432 KB) PNG (560 KB) 1334×750 16:9 e.g. iPhone 6, 6S, 7, 8 JPG (562 KB) PNG (742 KB) 2048×1536 4:3 “QXGA”, iPad 3rd Gen JPG (1.53 MB) PNG (2.22 MB) 2732×2048 4:3 iPad Pro JPG (2.52 MB) PNG (3.78 MB)

Laptops, Desktop & PCs

For the majority of screens today.

Resolution Ratio Description Download 1024×600 16:9 “WSVGA”, e.g. Netbooks JPG (377 KB) PNG (1.76 MB) 1152×768 3:2 PowerBook G4 Ti (I know you people are still out there) JPG (528 KB) PNG (691 KB) 1280×720 16:9 “WXGA”, e.g. HDTV (720p) JPG (524 KB) PNG (690 KB) 1280×854 3:2 PowerBook G4 JPG (630 KB) PNG (835 KB) 1360×768 16:9 “WXGA” JPG (581 KB) PNG (772 KB) 1366×768 16:9 “WXGA”,

most common laptop resolution JPG (583 KB) PNG (776 KB) 1440×960 3:2 PowerBook G4 JPG (767 KB) PNG (1.01 MB) 1600×900 16:9 “HD+” (900p) JPG (761 KB) PNG (1.01 MB) 1920×1080 16:9 Full HD (1080p) JPG (1.00 MB) PNG (1.41 MB) 1920×1280 3:2 Microsoft Surface 3 JPG (1.21 MB) PNG (1.72 MB) 2048×1152 16:9 “QWXGA” JPG (1.11 MB) PNG (1.59 MB) 2160×1440 3:2 Microsoft Surface Pro 3 JPG (1.48 MB) PNG (2.15 MB) 2256×1504 3:2 Microsoft Surface laptop JPG (1.56 MB) PNG (2.29 MB) 2560×1440 16:9 “QHD” (1440p), e.g. Apple iMac JPG (1.62 MB) PNG (2.41 MB) 2560×1700 3:2 Google Chromebook Pixel

(all three of you) JPG (1.98 MB) PNG (2.94 MB) 2736×1824 3:2 Microsoft Surface Pro 4 JPG (2.22 MB) PNG (3.35 MB) 3000×2000 3:2 Microsoft Surface Book JPG (2.62 MB) PNG (3.97 MB) 3200×1800 16:9 e.g. HP ENVY, Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro JPG (2.39 MB) PNG (3.65 MB) 3240×2160 3:2 Microsoft Surface Book 2 JPG (3.00 MB) PNG (4.57 MB) 3480×2160 16:9 UHD1, “4K” JPG (3.30 MB) PNG (5.13 MB) 4500×3000 3:2 Microsoft Surface Studio JPG (5.36 MB) PNG (8.45 MB) 5120×2880 16:9 “5K”, e.g. Apple iMac Pro JPG (5.50 MB) PNG (8.78 MB) 7680×4320 16:9 UHD2, “8K” JPG (11.4 MB) PNG (18.8 MB)

Can’t find the size you’re looking for? Mail kroc@camendesign.com with your request, or consider making your own!