A Jaw-Dropping Demo In Only 256 Bytes:
"Revision" is probably the Olympics of the demoscene. The world's best tiny graphics coders assemble, show off their works, and learn new tricks to pack as much awesome into as few bytes as possible or make unheard-of effects on limited hardware. And of course, there's a competition. Winning this year's 256-byte (byte!) competition, and then taking the overall crowd favorite award, was [HellMood]'s Memories.
If you watch it in the live-stream from Revision, you'll hear the crowd going (virtually) wild, and the announcer losing his grip and gasping for words. It's that amazing. Not only are more effects put into 28 bytes than we thought possible, but there's a full generative MIDI score to go with it. What?!?
But almost as amazing is [HellMood]'s generous writeup of how he pulled it off. If you're at all interested in demos, minimal graphics effects, or just plain old sweet hacks, you have your weekend's reading laid out for you. [HellMood] has all of his references and influences linked in as well. You're about to go down a very deep rabbit hole.
Video (2m).
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday April 26 2020, @12:47AM (2 children)
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(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Sunday April 26 2020, @11:36AM
Thanks.
That's something I should have known ... It's HTML after all, but I didn't. Now I can rewrite my John Baez started counting story to use ordinary HTML instead of Mathjax. I'll go script-free on that.
pdf version on http://topoi.pooq.com/hendrik/ord.pdf [pooq.com]
But html would be better.
-- hendrik
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday April 26 2020, @08:45PM
GGGrrreeeaaattt TTThhhiiinnnkkkiiinnnggg, PPPaaalll!!!
Thank you for the idea! In the interest of the advancement of Computer Science, here's the source code.
#!/bin/bash
while true
do read -s -n1
echo -n "$REPLY$REPLY$REPLY"
done
All in less then 256 bytes of perfectly indented and, let's say, self-evident code.
You may want to adjust some lameness filters next :P
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