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Show HN: Bitwise Liminal – A Short Film in 256 Bytes of Code

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Re: Show HN: Bitwise Liminal – A Short Film in 256 Bytes of Code

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Post by clemiclemen »

This is impressive and actually looks like a real movie scene. And to think this only fits in 256 bytes makes you rethink how bloated the things we are using everyday are and also how powerful current browsers are.

I am however more impressed by the 8K demos such as "the Sheep and the Flower" [1] which was shared on HN recently or "One of those days" [2] which is a remake of an actual Youtube video [3] (granted not exactly the same video by the second but the style is immediately recognizable). They are way bigger than this 256 bytes movie but convey a lot more graphics and story.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39121101

[2]: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=75790 and YouTube video: https://youtu.be/8T_Um-cw0Wc

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1NagZN2kjY

Re: Show HN: Bitwise Liminal – A Short Film in 256 Bytes of Code

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Post by lifthrasiir »

zeroq wrote: post #13

I can't stress enough how much I admire that it is true 256 bytes, instead of usual 1k game jams, where submissions are presented as zipped, gzipped, and postfixed, and not including assets to fit the criteria. Hats off.

> [...] where submissions are presented as zipped, gzipped, and postfixed, [...]

Well, you can always include a decompressor in your entry. PNG bootstrap has been popular enough in the JS demoscene for a long time and it starts to be effective for 1K or larger demos. There are other alternatives for smaller sizes, and 256B demos just happen to be too small to put any kind of decompressor in general.

> [...] and not including assets to fit the criteria.

I do agree on this aspect though.

Re: Show HN: Bitwise Liminal – A Short Film in 256 Bytes of Code

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Post by bsza »

imaginationra wrote: post #52

If this is a "short film" then you just read my new novel.

You could replace "t+=.1" with "t+=.01" and 9986 with 9e3, then you'll have a ~45 second loop still within 256 bytes, though a bit of the bottom part of the screen will be cut off.

Re: Show HN: Bitwise Liminal – A Short Film in 256 Bytes of Code

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Post by teddyh »

smokel wrote: post #49
sowbug wrote: post #25

Stuff like this makes me believe that the entirety of life really could be encoded in DNA. I've read that if you gzipped the human genome, the file would be about 4MB, which intuitively seems too small to represent a human. But if this behavior can emerge from 256 bytes, then clearly my intuition is off.

Life generated from DNA in a vacuum would probably be pretty boring. The entirety of life requires some surroundings to interact with, and as it stands there is but one of those, and singular things don't compress well. Also, have a look at the Mandelbrot set again. There's quite a lot of information in, arguably, a very modest process. And finally, to suggest that these 256 bytes are less impressive than they are, c…

> There's quite a lot of information in, arguably, a very modest process.

But quite low in Kolmogorov complexity.

Re: Show HN: Bitwise Liminal – A Short Film in 256 Bytes of Code

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Post by cal85 »

phs318u wrote: post #35

Is there an annotated version breaking down each part of this for us lesser mortals?

I've had a stab at decompressing the code by hand, adding comments and meaningful var names where possible. I still don't understand the maths in it...

https://github.com/callumlocke/bitwise-liminal-expanded

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