elevated by Rgba & TBC | 4k intro (FullHD 1080p demoscene demo)

Demoscene High-Quality Videos (Annikras) · 317.4K views · 2011-06-26 · 3:36

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Overview

Elevated by Rgba and TBC, the winner of the 4k intro compo at Breakpoint 2009. It is a realtime procedurally generated 3D flythrough with music, all in a 4096-byte executable.

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Held up as the landmark demoscene production and a counterpoint to software bloat.

Recommended by 7 HN people across 10 months · HN mentions 2013–2025

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Demoscene & retrocomputing Computer graphics & rendering Creative coding & generative art

What people said

onename · 2025-05 · Strong recommendation
When I want to show people what an intro is and tell them a bit about the demoscene, I usually show them the intro Elevated, which won the PC 4k compo at Breakpoint 2009. For me it really shows the talent of Iq and the other people who created it. It’s truly amazing what can be done in just 4 kilobyte! Elevated by Rgba & TBC: [VIDEO] Iq's slides on the Elevated intro: [LINK] Sourcecode: [LINK]
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duskwuff · 2020-04 · Strong recommendation
The 4k category was blown wide open in 2009 by rgba/tbc with Elevated [1] (live reactions: [2]). It demonstrated that 4k was more than sufficient for impressive effects and music -- suddenly, 64k was no longer an interesting constraint. [1]: [VIDEO] [2]: [LINK]
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twic · 2019-11 · Strong recommendation
Inigo Quilez, a demoscene programmer who does amazing work - of a very high technical and artistic standard, often in painfully tiny sizes - and then writes lucidly about it: [LINK] Here's 'Elevated' a four-kilobyte demo he did (along with others): [VIDEO] And here's the writeup: [LINK]
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