Hartverdrahtet - Akronyme Analogiker | 4k Revision 2012
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as a showcase of what fits in 4k, in discussions of code size limits and the demoscene.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2012 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec 12_throw_away · 2024-01 · on “We made an animated movie in 8kB”
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] [this video]
Recommends xal · 2013-04 · on “Hello from a libc-free world”
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: [this video]
Cites sp332 · 2012-05 · on “Infinite complexity in 4096 bytes”
This one? [this video] It was uploaded in 2048x1526 resolution, so anything less than that will be downsampled by Youtube.
Cites userbinator · 2016-05 · on “Rendering a Buddhabrot at 4K and Other Bad Ideas”
I almost read the title as about rendering it in a 4KB binary - realtime fractal rendering is a pretty common effect in the demoscene and definitely doable in that size category. Here are some examples: [this video] [LINK] [LINK]
Cites titzer · 2017-02 · on “From Philosophy to Program Size (2003)”
I understand your argument, but even then I don't think it's quite right; there is lots of room to improve on the size of a webpage vs its rendered pixels on the screen, even with the fancy fonts and gradients and animations. I still don't believe it's really megabytes. Have you seen 4k demo contests, btw? [this video]
Cites Bayart · 2022-02 · on “MadMax: Analyzing the Out-of-Gas World of Smart Contracts (2020)”
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]: [this video]