Farbrausch - fr-041: debris. [HD]
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends it as the demoscene showpiece to show someone what extreme size-limited real-time graphics look like.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 4 HN commenters across 4 different months, 2010 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Recommends corysama · 2010-05 · on “The Demoscene -- an Overview”
Farbrausch's "debris." shows just how much you can pack into 200k (including the audio, btw). [this video] For the webby crowd: "Masagin" features animated, recursive SVGs with antialiasing and motion blur at high rez and high frame rate. [LINK] Or, you could download both demos from [LINK] and run them on your own PC.
Recommends guiambros · 2013-03 · on “Simple Minecraft Clone in 580 lines of Python”
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 [this 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.
Recommends clay_to_n · 2015-03 · on “F***ing Learn to Code Again (1999)”
Farbrausch made the first demo I ever saw, a 2007 one called debris (fr-041): [this video] Super cool, and in an executable of 177kB.
Recommends sclangdon · 2016-06 · on “Source code for 4kb demoscene production “Elevated” released”
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] [this video] [3] [LINK]
Cites gurkendoktor · 2012-04 · on “Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms”
I always tought that the tiny hint of a narrative was why I've seen Debris[1] reach much more nerds than other demos, not its spectacularly small file size. [1] [this video]
Cites errantspark · 2014-08 · on “A Single Div”
Ok fair point I shouldn't have been so glib as puet is pretty horrible from a web design standpoint. It's a website for the demoscene, where people do stuff like this [this video] in 177 kilobytes.
Cites abstractbeliefs · 2017-07 · on “Fr-087: Snake Charmer PC Demo”
It's a cute little demo that's only basically 1MB all in. That said, I don't think it's the best for this group - they've done more in far less before. [this video] for example, is an executable only 177KB big.
Cites future_crew_fan · 2026-03 · on “We Built a Video Rendering Engine by Lying to the Browser About What Time It Is”
> "one guy" sir, that's no way to refer to farbrausch here is their Breakpoint 2007 demo, a 177 Kb executable including 3d assets and textures. [this video]