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Hartverdrahtet - Akronyme Analogiker | 4k Revision 2012

Demoscene High-Quality Videos (Annikras) · 339.6K views · 2012-04-10 · 3:05

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Overview

Hartverdrahtet by Akronyme Analogiker, the winning PC 4k intro at Revision 2012. It is a realtime demo with music and fractal visuals in 4096 bytes.

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Cited as a showcase of what fits in 4k, in discussions of code size limits and the demoscene.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2012–2024

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Demoscene & retrocomputingCreative coding & generative art
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12_throw_away · 2024-01 · Strong recommendation

So then I'm going to post my favorite 4k [1], which even if you ignore the file size, is just a very cool use of fractals. [1] [VIDEO]

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xal · 2013-04 · Recommendation

Sadly, I don't have any of my own work anymore, although I'm sure I could write out a few procedural texture generators from top of my head. Luckily, the demo scene has collectively decided to go back and open source much of it's best work recently: [LINK] The most recent 4ks are nothing short of stunning: [VIDEO]

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Bayart · 2022-02 · Reference

Related to that, people have started using old procedural generation tricks to store "large" amounts of data on-chain. For example, as far as I understand it, Aavegotchi [1] stores base layer SVGs, metadata and functions to use these and render the actual end-product at view-time. Blockchain constraints are eerily reminiscent of the demoscene [2][3][4] (just using the opportunity to share stuff I like, don't mind it). [1]: [LINK] [2]: [LINK] [3]: [LINK] [4]: [VIDEO]

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