[HN Gopher] Making graphics in 4 kilobytes (2008) [pdf]
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       Making graphics in 4 kilobytes (2008) [pdf]
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 85 points
       Date   : 2022-05-02 14:17 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | mav88 wrote:
       | Inigo is The Man when it comes to 4k intros.
        
         | pixelpoet wrote:
         | No disrespect to IQ, but 4k and especially 64k demos have a
         | long and rich history of which he's a part.
         | 
         | For example, in 2000 we had this blockbuster realtime ray
         | tracing demo, Heaven 7:
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNqpD3Mg9hY
         | 
         | In those days part of the 64k was low level graphics and audio
         | stuff which are these days provided by Windows, to say nothing
         | of shader compilers etc.
        
       | lifthrasiir wrote:
       | Inigo Quilez, the author of this slide, also has made in-depth
       | videos [1] [2] which might be more accessible to who aren't
       | familiar with shader languages.
       | 
       | [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8--5LwHRhjk
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       | [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFld4EBO2RE
        
       | xabi wrote:
       | Inigo Quilez is a beast.
       | 
       | Elavated 4k demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YWMGuh15nE
       | Shadertoy: https://www.shadertoy.com/user/iq Resume:
       | https://iquilezles.org/personal/resume/
        
       | ilaksh wrote:
       | I've been thinking about an alternative to browsers recently and
       | one of the things that made me think that RST plus IconVG could
       | be an option for very tiny (and fast loading) information pages
       | was that he was talking about a limited type of (non Turing
       | complete?) function call. Which I guess he didn't do yet.
       | 
       | But I like the idea of some kind of alt internet where you never
       | need to worry about waiting for some big download or ad, and
       | every page is 6kb or less or something. Also it never runs any
       | application code in the information browser part (although you
       | can have a list of attached web assembly files or something).
       | 
       | But if you're really efficient with something like IconVG you can
       | have small file sizes and also fast load times. You could limit
       | the features or put a drawing time limit on it to ensure pages
       | load within 60ms or something.
        
       | natly wrote:
       | I'm a supporter of this guys patreon[1] because I love the idea
       | that someone with this much experience and talent is using his
       | effort to make tutorials etc that help everyone (rather than some
       | closed codebase only enriching a small set of stakeholders), and
       | I'd love to be part of being able to give him enough fuck you
       | money to not have to worry about anything else.
       | 
       | [1] https://www.patreon.com/inigoquilez
        
       | meta1299 wrote:
       | View the PDF in browser: https://docmadeeasy.com/v/607973065
        
         | _Microft wrote:
         | The link submitted by OP loads perfectly fine in Firefox
         | (current version). Maybe check your settings?
        
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