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Hartverdrahtet – Infinite complexity in 4096 bytes

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Worthy winner of the PC 4kB intro competition at Revision 2012 and latest example of the compact-coding tradition exercised within the demoscene, Hartverdrahtet by Akronyme Analogiker is a three minute long audio-visual trip into a procedural fractalverse, compressed into a minuscule piece of software. No bigger than 4069 bytes – less than an empty Word document, as demoscene activists like to point out – the executable file contains all the mathematics needed to generate the unfolding visual complexity and audible ambience upon a double-click. A solo effort by a talented coder who calls himself Demoscene Passivist, Hartverdrahtet reveals a mesmerizing cosmos observed through what could be an electron microscope – ethereal, greenish and a little eerie. http://www.creativeapplications.net/...in-4096-bytes/
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  1. The Theist's Avatar
    Very cool. It reminds me of the ray traced fractal animations back in the old days.
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  2. minorwork's Avatar
    Those demos sparked my buying the dvd of those I used to stock pile to run 386 and later 486 machines with my Gravis Ultrasound with Yamaha pumped sub-woofer and speakers. Those invited to watch said the quality was better than their stereos. I think "Dope" was the last I had running and was the least stable.

    This from 4k? Whoa!!!! And, Jack, your typing error, 4069 bytes? Was it an error or did the program's writers not need that remaining 27 bytes?
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