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Crinkler, the compressing linker, is really interesting. This link inadvertently shows the file_id.diz for Crinkler rather than anything relevant to the rest of Elevated; but honestly I always found the Crinkler stuff to be fascinating. The project lives on today: https://github.com/runestubbe/Crinkler and http://crinkler.net/
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Demos of this caliber are like F1 cars from 60 years ago: a single genius, or small team, creating something totally beyond the reasonable expectations of everyone who is familiar with the technology in question. I really hope it continues to be possible for this art form to exist.
> I really hope it continues to be possible for this art form to exist. Hopefully AI doesn't one day ruin the demoscene as well. Seems like a Pandora's box for cheating and/or asymmetric resource advantages.
I don't think they'll be much ruining going on. The people who make these demos use everything they can get their hands on, as long as it helps with cool visuals, a great soundtrack, and sandal executable size. In terms of how they get there everything seems to be allowed and even expected. And if one of those things is a trained network, so be it. Many groups have their own custom tools or even one-offs for only one demo.
Maybe the universe is a demo written by the gods in <4kb
It has a many aspects one would want from a good universe.
Infinite detail. But not "boring". The digits of PI have infinite detail too, but when you don't know the algorithm itself, they probably look just random. Which would be boring. But the Mandelbrot set exhibits many nice patterns one can learn and reason about.
The algorithm that creates the Mandelbrot set can probably be implemented in less than 400 bytes.
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How would one even learn how to do something like this? I feel like I have a high level understanding of most parts of the stack, but graphics programming has eluded me thus far. Would writing a ray tracer be a good starter project? I know I've seen it recommended by several people before.
I'd recommend starting with javascript: https://thebookofshaders.com/ https://threejs.org/examples/#webgl_geometry_terrain_raycast
The Book of Shaders looks quite interesting however, thank you for the link!
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Demos of this caliber are like F1 cars from 60 years ago: a single genius, or small team, creating something totally beyond the reasonable expectations of everyone who is familiar with the technology in question. I really hope it continues to be possible for this art form to exist.
How would one even learn how to do something like this? I feel like I have a high level understanding of most parts of the stack, but graphics programming has eluded me thus far. Would writing a ray tracer be a good starter project? I know I've seen it recommended by several people before.
Yes!
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How would one even learn how to do something like this? I feel like I have a high level understanding of most parts of the stack, but graphics programming has eluded me thus far. Would writing a ray tracer be a good starter project? I know I've seen it recommended by several people before.
I fell the synth is overlooked. There's a lot going on there in a tiny amount of code.
Maybe the universe is a demo written by the gods in <4kb
The Mandelbrot set comes to mind. It has a many aspects one would want from a good universe. Infinite detail. But not "boring". The digits of PI have infinite detail too, but when you don't know the algorithm itself, they probably look just random. Which would be boring. But the Mandelbrot set exhibits many nice patterns one can learn and reason about. The algorithm that creates the Mandelbrot set can probably be imp…
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The Mandelbrot set comes to mind. It has a many aspects one would want from a good universe. Infinite detail. But not "boring". The digits of PI have infinite detail too, but when you don't know the algorithm itself, they probably look just random. Which would be boring. But the Mandelbrot set exhibits many nice patterns one can learn and reason about. The algorithm that creates the Mandelbrot set can probably be imp…
I can do you a 276 byte version using `dc`? 2k64sw32sh7sz[.]0:p[,]1:p[:]2:p[o]3:p[ ]4:p[O]5:p[@]6:p[ ]lz:p5lw/si4 lh/sj0 2-dsxsu0 2-dsysv[0 2-dsxsu[luSalvSblzdsnSq[lqSn0Sq]Sm[ladd SoSs LoLslb2* SoSsLoLslbd -lu+Salv+Sbclad lbd +4 lbd* +4 0sr[1sr]st>tLrln;pPlilu+ Sulu2>h]sh lhx[]pljlv+Svlv2>f]sflfx
So then the question becomes what is the absolute minimal hardware and software configuration that you could use to generate a mandelbrot?
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Demos of this caliber are like F1 cars from 60 years ago: a single genius, or small team, creating something totally beyond the reasonable expectations of everyone who is familiar with the technology in question. I really hope it continues to be possible for this art form to exist.
How would one even learn how to do something like this? I feel like I have a high level understanding of most parts of the stack, but graphics programming has eluded me thus far. Would writing a ray tracer be a good starter project? I know I've seen it recommended by several people before.
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Demos of this caliber are like F1 cars from 60 years ago: a single genius, or small team, creating something totally beyond the reasonable expectations of everyone who is familiar with the technology in question. I really hope it continues to be possible for this art form to exist.
How would one even learn how to do something like this? I feel like I have a high level understanding of most parts of the stack, but graphics programming has eluded me thus far. Would writing a ray tracer be a good starter project? I know I've seen it recommended by several people before.
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