As German, the thing that annoys me after 5 seconds is that the driver is overtaken on the right side and does so himself ... Hate it
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#72BTW, while we may think that driving is a universal thing, I instantly found it amazing how North American this is. From the integrated indicators, to cars passing on your right, to the road lights and even how the road undulates. Having said that, great project! Edit: Well I got this entirely wrong and missed that this was meant to be lefthand traffic. (I caught a segment that looked more like there was an independe…
Erm, the cars are driving on the left (red taillights on left side of motorway, white headlights on right)... wouldn't North America be the other way around, with cars overtaking on the left?
I happened to watch a segment where the cars on the opposite lanes looked more like passing on an independent road, so I missed that this was meant to be lefthand traffic. And it really looked more like an interstate passing through a city. – My failure.
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#73Love it.
Might be a good thread to ask. A few years ago I found a couple of sites that were like shadertoy but for 2D canvas shit like this. One I think was codegolf.tk (which appears to have disappeared), and I can't for the life of me remember what the other was.
Does anyone know of any such sites?
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#74As German, the thing that annoys me after 5 seconds is that the driver is overtaken on the right side and does so himself ... Hate it
I wouldn't use the word "hate" but I also find it irritating, even though I'm not German.
Admit it, though: you dislike even more that in that app, you're not zooming by everyone else on the left-most lane, right? ;-)
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s probably a simple but effective way to do it, like drawing the body itself as a few black circles.
Exactly. Whenever drawing a pair of red circles for tailights, draw ~10 overlapping black circles between them. Bam. Done. I don't think this requires naive optimism, just 5 minutes of additional effort. Maybe less.
Only five minutes! - Here's the source, show us. https://github.com/jes/nightdrive
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#76So realistic that it hogs the middle lane when it could move to the left ;)
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#77Would be a nice "game" experience with VR googles
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't this left hand traffic though? As in, not what you'd find in America? It feels very Swedish to me, except for the traffic direction.
What do you mean Swedish except for the traffic direction??
Depends on where you are of course, but reminds me of approaching Stockholm, just before it gets so thick that people start loitering in the left lane. Perhaps Salem, if traffic isn't too heavy.
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#79> ’Maybe it's a "demo"?’
There’s a long-standing tradition of people creating realtime graphics software on personal computers that doesn’t offer any interactivity. They are indeed called demos and the community is called the demoscene. It goes back to the late 1980s and had a golden era in the mid-90s on Amiga and PC. (Pre-Internet, watching and making demos was one of the few socially and creatively oriented things you could do for free on a home computer.)
To be pedantic, this isn’t a full-blown demo. Small demos are called intros, and a category of them is the size-constrained intro (e.g. 1kB or 4kB). So this could be either a small intro or an effect as part of a bigger demo.
It’s worth looking up some of the small intros. People can squeeze entire GPU-raytraced universes with music into a few kilobytes.
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#80> It's not a screensaver, because it's not the 90s. It may be 2022, but I would love a screensaver version of this.
It would definitely fit into xscreensaver's collection, yes.