Hacking Hi-Def Graphics and Camerawork Into 4Kb 255
TRNick writes "The old home-computing art of hacking elaborate graphics and camerawork into tiny amounts of memory has been lost, right? Not so. The demoscene is keeping ingenious coding skills alive, and TechRadar finds out the latest developments. Winner of the 4kb competition at 2009's Breakpoint party was RGBA's demo 'Elevated,' a gorgeous scrolling demo featuring photo realistic landscapes and music, which fits into the memory used by one of your PC's desktop icons. This is really impressive stuff."
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
It takes a 64MB avi to store the 4KB demo!
Re:TROJAN?! (Score:5, Funny)
Funny is 4 KB app manages to do HDTV and your AV solution being thousands (if not millions) times bigger can't figure the difference between a trojan and packed executable. That is in case it is even packed.
Re:YouTube version (Score:5, Funny)
I agree (Score:2, Funny)
I was still impressed, but the demo is heavily dependent on existing libraries. If there were an OpenGL function to draw_glorious_mountainscape_and_fly_around_it_while_playing_majestic_music(), they could have packed this into less than 100 bytes.
Link (Score:5, Funny)
Torrent anyone ?
Its easy to do with quantum computers (Score:3, Funny)
Try it, go looking for that magical random seed that creates a 1MB blob of code that does something impressive. Maybe you should expand your idea to first generate a filtering program that can determine if a code sequence, when run over some data, creates a demo? :-)
Its actually much easier than that with quantum computing. All you need are some trivial modifications to the Quantum Bogosort algorithm and some way to let the program know whether it has won the contest or not.