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Title: They did it again - absolutely stunning
Post by: Sandwich on March 06, 2003, 03:17:45 am: Remeber this (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,4239.0.html) thread? With the 64Kb demo with all the cool graphics and sound? Well, they did it again.

http://www.theproduct.de/index.html

Allow me to quote myself from that previous thread:

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Originally posted by Sandwich
WOW!
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Post by: Fineus on March 06, 2003, 03:31:06 am: Dear god.... these guys are gods...
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Post by: RangerKarl on March 06, 2003, 03:56:17 am: Holy.......I never thought I'd see something like that on my rig...and only 64k too....holy.....
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Post by: Kamikaze on March 06, 2003, 04:41:10 am: mmmm... yummy procedurals :D

see this site too: http://www.monostep.org/
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Post by: Redfang on March 06, 2003, 07:48:13 am: Blah. Not impressive.

(just joking, actually awesome :eek: )
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Post by: Stunaep on March 06, 2003, 07:48:49 am: :eek2:
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Post by: Knight Templar on March 06, 2003, 09:52:59 am: :eek:

It's friggin 7:50 am and they already got both of my eyes to open all the way
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Post by: CP5670 on March 06, 2003, 10:22:20 am: Now this is just incredible. The graphical demonstration itself is very impressive (nice and abstract, just the way I like it :D), but the file size is beyond belief; they must be using one heck of a compression method... :eek: :yes:
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Post by: Tiara on March 06, 2003, 10:34:06 am: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
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Post by: Stealth on March 06, 2003, 10:34:38 am: very nice@
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Post by: ZylonBane on March 06, 2003, 12:30:00 pm: Erm, this is almost a year old.

I found "The Product" more engaging, because it renders more (vaguely) real-world scenes. This one is just a bunch of abstract crap floating in space. The music isn't as good either.
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Post by: Martinus on March 06, 2003, 12:42:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by ZylonBane
Erm, this is almost a year old.

I found "The Product" more engaging, because it renders more (vaguely) real-world scenes. This one is just a bunch of abstract crap floating in space. The music isn't as good either.

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Need anyone point ot that it's only 64K in size? It's worth noting that microsoft would be hard pressed to write a frikkin basic help file that size. :rolleyes:

On another note...
My graphics card is too slow to view this :(
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Post by: elorran on March 06, 2003, 12:44:20 pm: the 64k comps have been around for a while now, but they didn't really start to pick up until 97-onwards. But most of the coding in these files is simple instructions, all of the full 'graphics' and 'sounds' are generated mostly by programs that are already on your computer (Direct X anyone?). But on occation you do get some of the 64k programs with in file graphics and sound, but not that often.
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Post by: ZylonBane on March 06, 2003, 01:05:29 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=ff9999]Need anyone point ot that it's only 64K in size?[/color]
Need I point out that The Product is only 64K too? :rolleyes: I thought The Product was better. In this latest (and by "latest" I mean "year-old") one, they completely gave up on rendering real-world objects and just went with spikey randomness. And way too much text.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on March 06, 2003, 03:10:16 pm: Saw that a full month ago. I gotta say, I'd be a LOT more impressed if they did something other than spiky turds over and over and over again- even if they wanted to stick to abstraction, they coulda stuck in some friggin' variety. I'm sure there are programs out there that'll randomly generate **** like that, no effort at all beyond sticking in some keys, so I fail to see what the point really is- it's well done, but I can tell how they did it all and it doesn't matter how good it is if it doesn't HAVE anything new or have anything I can't do in a few months on my crappy rig.
Title: They did it again - absolutely stunning
Post by: Sandwich on March 06, 2003, 05:21:55 pm: Quote
Originally posted by ZylonBane
In this latest ... one, they completely gave up on rendering real-world objects and just went with spikey randomness.

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Originally posted by Stryke 9
I gotta say, I'd be a LOT more impressed if they did something other than spiky turds over and over and over again...

Quick, note the time and date! ZB and Stryke are Agreeing™

:D
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Post by: SKYNET-011 on March 06, 2003, 05:42:46 pm: Quote
Quick, note the time and date! ZB and Stryke are Agreeing™

:eek: Even more stunning! :lol:
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Post by: Stryke 9 on March 06, 2003, 09:08:45 pm: Well, the law of averages would suggest that after nearly 1,000 tries, he's bound to get something right. After all, if he was unfailingly completely wrong 100% of the time, that'd be a sort of accuracy, too.
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Post by: J.F.K. on March 07, 2003, 02:25:06 am: Quote
Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]On another note...
My graphics card is too slow to view this :(
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Me too :( I get lots of slow-downs. But I still found it pretty cool, though I went and downloaded The Product and have to say that I enjoyed it more. :nod:
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Post by: Gortef on March 07, 2003, 04:01:34 am: Oh dear... they realyl know what they're doing :eek2: :eek2: