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Making graphics in 4 kilobytes (2008) [pdf]

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Re: Making graphics in 4 kilobytes (2008) [pdf]

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It's also inspiring to see how much you can do with only 140 characters of code (so it fits in a tweet). Here are some examples: https://www.dwitter.net/d/104 (tunnel) https://www.dwitter.net/d/302 (old school effect) https://www.dwitter.net/d/406 (rotating cylinder)

So cool! Thanks for posting them.

Re: Making graphics in 4 kilobytes (2008) [pdf]

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I've loved these kinds of demos since I first discovered them. For those not in the know, this is _the_ site for finding them: http://www.pouet.net/ Though it didn't end up involving any procedural generation, I was tasked with cramming an OSD into an FPGA that was already using the majority of its resources. The device was processing an HDMI video stream and needed to display a menu and various other information to…

Sounds like you might appreciate LFT's Parallelogram fpga demo:

http://www.linusakesson.net/scene/parallelogram/

Re: Making graphics in 4 kilobytes (2008) [pdf]

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I've loved these kinds of demos since I first discovered them. For those not in the know, this is _the_ site for finding them: http://www.pouet.net/ Though it didn't end up involving any procedural generation, I was tasked with cramming an OSD into an FPGA that was already using the majority of its resources. The device was processing an HDMI video stream and needed to display a menu and various other information to…

Sounds awesome! When I was in school I made a "Game Boy with vector graphics" using an FPGA and a microcontroller. I synthesized a GPU and display driver on the FPGA and sent vector drawing commands from the microcontroller which ran a simple game. It looked like this:

https://github.com/niedzielski/swankmania/blob/master/DSC057... https://github.com/niedzielski/swankmania/blob/master/DSC057...

Re: Making graphics in 4 kilobytes (2008) [pdf]

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If this is from 2008, does anybody know what's up with one of the last slides which states "There was an interesting procedural full 3d image in this slide. After some explanations on it, speech attendees were flashed and their short term visual memory erased."?

Re: Making graphics in 4 kilobytes (2008) [pdf]

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If this is from 2008, does anybody know what's up with one of the last slides which states "There was an interesting procedural full 3d image in this slide. After some explanations on it, speech attendees were flashed and their short term visual memory erased."?

Probably referring to the 'neuralyzer' gadget from the movie Men In Black (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuralyzer).

But could also be a reference to the 'visual knock-out capsules' from Alfred Bester's SF novel 'The Demolished Man':

"They were cubes of copper, half the size of fulminating caps, but twice as deadly. When they were broken open, they erupted a dazzling blue flare that ionized the Rhodopsin - the visual purple in the retina of the eye - blinding the victim and abolishing his perception of time and space."

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