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Offline Sandwich

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They did it again - absolutely stunning
on: March 06, 2003, 03:17:45 am
Remeber this 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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Offline Fineus

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They did it again - absolutely stunning
Reply #1 on: March 06, 2003, 03:31:06 am
Dear god.... these guys are gods...
 

Offline RangerKarl

They did it again - absolutely stunning
Reply #2 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.....
 

Offline Kamikaze

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They did it again - absolutely stunning
Reply #3 on: March 06, 2003, 04:41:10 am
mmmm... yummy procedurals :D

see this site too: http://www.monostep.org/
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Offline Redfang

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Reply #4 on: March 06, 2003, 07:48:13 am
Blah. Not impressive.
 
(just joking, actually awesome :eek: )
 

Offline Stunaep

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Reply #5 on: March 06, 2003, 07:48:49 am
:eek2:
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Offline Knight Templar

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Reply #6 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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Offline CP5670

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Reply #7 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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Reply #8 on: March 06, 2003, 10:34:06 am
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
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Offline Stealth

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Reply #9 on: March 06, 2003, 10:34:38 am
very nice@
  

Offline ZylonBane

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Reply #10 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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Offline Martinus

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Reply #11 on: March 06, 2003, 12:42:00 pm
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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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Offline elorran

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Reply #12 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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Offline ZylonBane

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Reply #13 on: March 06, 2003, 01:05:29 pm
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[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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Offline Stryke 9

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Reply #14 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.
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Reply #15 on: March 06, 2003, 05:21:55 pm
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In this latest ... one, they completely gave up on rendering real-world objects and just went with spikey randomness.


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


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Reply #16 on: March 06, 2003, 05:42:46 pm
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:eek: Even more stunning! :lol:
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Offline Stryke 9

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Reply #17 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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Offline J.F.K.

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Reply #18 on: March 07, 2003, 02:25:06 am
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[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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Reply #19 on: March 07, 2003, 04:01:34 am
Oh dear... they realyl know what they're doing :eek2: :eek2:
Habeeb it...
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