Farbrausch - fr-041: debris. [HD]

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Overview

Debris by Farbrausch, the winner of the Breakpoint 2007 demo competition. All of its 3D visuals, textures and music come from a single 177 KB executable.

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HN recommends it as the demoscene showpiece to show someone what extreme size-limited real-time graphics look like.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2010–2026

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Demoscene & retrocomputing Computer graphics & rendering

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sclangdon · 2016-06 · Recommendation
Although they generally didn't compete in the 4kb genre, Farbrausch open-sourced many of their demos and demo-making tools a few years ago [1]. fr-041: Debris [2], and kkrieger [3] (the 96kb FPS) are particularly worth checking out for the uninitiated. [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO] [3] [LINK]
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clay_to_n · 2015-03 · Recommendation
Farbrausch made the first demo I ever saw, a 2007 one called debris (fr-041): [VIDEO] Super cool, and in an executable of 177kB.
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guiambros · 2013-03 · Recommendation
If you want to really show off the demoscene, try Farbrausch - fr-041. It's comparatively very big (179KB), but impressive how they were able to squeeze so much stuff there: video [VIDEO] , official repository: [LINK] . If you want to dig deeper, Farbrausch published most of their material and tools last year including the source code for fr-041. Search for farbrausch on GitHub. But I must say, it's pretty hardcore.
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