This sent me on a one hour long rabbit hole that ended with two guys building a Sierpinski triangle with recursive PowerPoint presentations
replyThank you for that. Refreshing! :)
replyDiscussion (209 points, 6 days ago, 34 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173962
replySome other time, I really thought that a 32 byte demo I saw is the limit of how small the binary can get and still look good.
replyThat other demo didn't even have sound.
This is hell of a good work. A masterpiece to retire after. (or more realistically, chase it on other architectures)
One of the linked demos, "rainbow surf", got me hypnotized. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKLhH_ANwIc
replyAuthor of "wake up" here. Yes, that one reactivated me again. We thought (as size coding community) that we found every cellular automaton trick years ago, but then Plex came around and showed us otherwise ♥
replyDefinitely thought this was a 16b parameter llm, not a 16 byte demo.
replySame! This is way cooler tho!
replyI'm really impressed. Those are the things that made me love programming and computing. It's all so beautiful, it's TRULY art. It's a shame that in the industry we don't usually have the opportunities to make something like that, with AIs and all that...
replyIf this was made in Electron it would probably be a 300MB download and around 1GB of RAM.
replyI swear watching this kind of projects occasionally is the only thing keeping me from dropping tech and going to work as a mailman or something.
replyi can barely accept this is possible
replyThere are only 2^128 of such demos. How much of those are valid DOS programs? If we narrow it down to ones that generate both video and sound, I guess there are much less, which should motivate more people to try and find one :)
reply2^128 is still a huuuuuge space.
replyMakes me wonder how many bytes the shortest possible Mandelbrot implementation would need.
replyAuthor of "wakeup" here. You would would need between 32 and 64 bytes. I have something that almost looks like one in 32 but it's not published yet ;)
replyAt the same event I released "Broccolori", a 32 Byte fractal for old-school PCs.
replyhttps://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=106205
Related to the Dragon Fractal, with a twist:)
I did NOT expect this 16 bytes demo to also have sound! What an outstanding piece of art.
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replyDid not work on PCEM for some reason.
reply16 bytes equals immediate “black magic” and “it’s a witch”. I get it in the abstract - generative art and CAs and fractals have infinite depth. But this is madness. I love it so much
replyi'll upvote this each time it's submitted
replythat's crazy. level to which i'm striving haha
replylove the sign "This text is handwritten" at the bottom, that's awesome
replyThis is absolutely obscene. I am floored. Sweet hack.
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replyBut big model is really better
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