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256 bytes of shock and awe
« on: September 23, 2009 »
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53816
top of the month over at  pouet just brings a tear to my eye. Rrrola is just the dogs bollucks when it comes to 256 byters. I think I found my personal icon.

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Re: 256 bytes of shock and awe
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2009 »
wow!
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Re: 256 bytes of shock and awe
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2009 »
The shading technique reminds me of amstrad and c64 gfx demos.
It is as you say very impressive.
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Re: 256 bytes of shock and awe
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2009 »
I was gobsmacked when I saw it too.

I am debating what to give my next CDC to, it's between two products, this is one I am considering.
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Re: 256 bytes of shock and awe
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2009 »
Yup. Thats is indeed a great piece of work.
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Re: 256 bytes of shock and awe
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2009 »
Crikey!

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Re: 256 bytes of shock and awe
« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2009 »
So how does this work?  What is the rendering technique?

From the source, which I barely understand:
"raycasting using unbounded binary search"
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Re: 256 bytes of shock and awe
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2009 »
It's basically raymarching, like the stuff we're all doing in 1k->4k intros now but on the cpu with a smaller screen space.
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Re: 256 bytes of shock and awe
« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2009 »
ok, so

1) point a ray at the screen
2) Start with a small step
3) Check if we are inside an object
4) if not double to step and goto 3
5) if we are inside an object then half the step
6) If number of steps for this ray > max steps Process results

Something like that?

Is it bad form to be asking how this thing works?
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Re: 256 bytes of shock and awe
« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2009 »
No!  Inquiring minds want to know :)

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Re: 256 bytes of shock and awe
« Reply #10 on: October 01, 2009 »
Windows version is available here :

http://rrrola.wz.cz/files/puls_win.zip

Also I found a link where someone has been putting some effort in to recreate the effect. Not exactly tiny but it is the same. But with unobfuscated source code included (java) :

http://meatfighter.com/puls/
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Re: 256 bytes of shock and awe
« Reply #11 on: October 01, 2009 »
That is stunning Rain_storm thanks for the windows version :)
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Re: 256 bytes of shock and awe
« Reply #12 on: October 01, 2009 »
Can you access the java version ???
It seems to be down for me ?
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Re: 256 bytes of shock and awe
« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2009 »
me too
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Re: 256 bytes of shock and awe
« Reply #14 on: October 02, 2009 »
It's back up!

Wow... ask a question and the universe answers.  Looks like I wasn't the only one wanting to know how this works.

Great article.  Nice find rain_storm.
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Re: 256 bytes of shock and awe
« Reply #15 on: October 02, 2009 »
Yeah thats quite an intro and it deserves every bit of attention it gets. Oh and yeah the java versions are accessible.
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Re: 256 bytes of shock and awe
« Reply #16 on: October 02, 2009 »
Yup. Java version is back online. Its a nice read.
Thanks for pointing out the link!
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