View Full Version : interesting demo of a 3D virtual world
it is 64kb and lasts more than 10 minutes, full of video, music , pictures, textures. i thought the program steal energy from void. or may be downloading data from the web, but my wireless modem was not blinking.
this is amazing.
http://csci.biola.edu/csci105Lin/3DGraphics.zip
you may need a 3d graphics card. it runs okay with my Geforce 7300 GT
danbaron
13-07-2011, 05:57
It ran perfectly on my average computer.
Charles Pegge
13-07-2011, 07:02
Wow! squeezing all that into 64k! Of course there is several megabytes of OS and OpenGL code supporting it but the compression of just the audio part is incredible let alone the graphics.
Why is Windows such a lumbering 4Gig dinosaur? :)
Charles.
i wish i can run this:
http://www.pouet.net/screenshots/54544.jpg
it is just 4 KB program , there are some pictures in the folder. there are several 4kb files for different screen resolution. but it needs: OpenGL, DX10 level graphics card. That is: Radeon HD 2x00+ or Geforce 8x00+, as in the readme.
it is here:
http://awards.scene.org/nominees.php?cat=14
Charles Pegge
13-07-2011, 17:37
It renders on my nVidia GT100 but it is only a still and crashes on exit.
Charles
Petr Schreiber
13-07-2011, 18:30
The first demo runs great here, the second displays the still and crashes on exit.
Maybe the still is the wanted output?
Petr
largo_winch
15-07-2011, 11:46
tested first example too, runs perfect here. but how they managed all the textures with this little exe file? ;)
the "demo" parties or community is very active. some weeks ago I posted a link to a german meeting in saarbrücken, where you can see how this demo's are running and made there a big competition and award (link: http://www.thinbasic.com/community/showthread.php?11151-revision-2d-3d-demo-party-%28saarbr%FCcken%29)
does anybody knows how it's possible to create a 10 or 15 minutes animation within 65 kbytes? It's impossible, isn't it? it's the result of file compression with all media files you need for that "demo" visual intros? would be good to know.
bye, largo
thanks largo_winch for testing, i have posted before a message "unbelievable reality self constructing program (http://www.thinbasic.com/community/showthread.php?10465-unbelievable-reality-self-constructing-program&highlight=unbelievable+reality+constructing+program)" and Petr replied that it is called "procedurally generated media".
when searching it , it is as defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_generation:
"Procedural generation is a widely used term in the production of media; it refers to content generated algorithmically rather than manually, this means creating content on the fly rather than prior to distribution"
this is like making huge fractal picture from small equation.
but of course there is a great effort in doing such creations.
indeed this is the first time i have noticed Petr note (procedurally generated media), so searching web there is a lot of documentation.