[HN Gopher] Honey Bunnies
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       Honey Bunnies
        
       Author : memalign
       Score  : 103 points
       Date   : 2025-03-13 17:33 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (mameson.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (mameson.com)
        
       | pvg wrote:
       | The homepage is wild too, not that I can read most of what it
       | says
       | 
       | https://mameson.com/
        
         | tobyjsullivan wrote:
         | Links to many interesting demos.
         | https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/glsl.html
        
           | marky1991 wrote:
           | Question to whoever knows anything about this kind of stuff:
           | Are loading times of these ever likely to get (meaningfully)
           | better? The demos are all interesting, but having to wait
           | forever (10-20s) before they load is excruciating. I would be
           | afraid to know what the loading time of a non-demo kind of
           | game would be.
        
             | stephenhumphrey wrote:
             | Unknown, but for anyone under-resourced, this experiment
             | from the site loaded instantly for me:
             | 
             | https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/ferro_9/ferro_9.html
        
               | marky1991 wrote:
               | This one also loaded basically instantly for me as well,
               | but for example this one: https://mameson.com/experiment/
               | glsl/clouded_cracker_2/cloude... took ~15 seconds to load
               | and then runs at 9 fps on a pretty powerful dev machine.
               | (granted, it is running a bit slow and I'm also running a
               | vm at the same time, so maybe that's the cause)
        
               | marky1991 wrote:
               | Ok, it turns out it's all my fault: fps was terrible due
               | to the vm I was running simultaneously, it oes to 60 fps
               | with vm turned off; and the loading time was because I
               | was downloading it through my company's vpn.
        
               | qingcharles wrote:
               | LOL. Yeah, it loads in about a second on my PC which is
               | five generations old and has a $200 GPU, so you
               | definitely shouldn't have been struggling :)
        
             | nickthegreek wrote:
             | That might be local hardware related? These are loading up
             | in under 3s for me.
        
             | Joel_Mckay wrote:
             | I would recommend checking a reasonable game engine load
             | time:
             | 
             | https://www.babylonjs.com/games/
             | 
             | The engine examples also have fluid like surface
             | displacement animations in shader tricks.
             | 
             | Fun stuff for sure, but would never let it in production
             | for a few reasons =3
        
             | girvo wrote:
             | They loaded instantly for me, but I'm on Firefox with a
             | 5600X + RTX 4070 with a 1GB/s down internet connection
        
           | Willingham wrote:
           | This one is particularly mesmerizing
           | https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/young_5/young_5.html
        
             | hsuduebc2 wrote:
             | Damn. I feel kinda physically unstable watching this.
             | Mesmerizing indeed
        
           | siavosh wrote:
           | Like a fever dream.
        
         | noduerme wrote:
         | These are great experiments! Really a nice mix of art and
         | engineering at play. It looks like they go all the way back to
         | MM Shockwave days, and some from the early 2000s have been
         | rewritten for canvas. I just spent an hour lost in this museum!
        
         | tmaly wrote:
         | Can anyone explain what that is that I am looking at?
        
       | wrboyce wrote:
       | This is great; inspired by Pulp Fiction I call my fiancee "Bee"
       | (over the years: Honey Bunny -> HB -> Bee).
        
         | czk wrote:
         | Can't help but comment that the song Honey Bee by Tom Petty is
         | an absolute banger as well.
        
           | dylan604 wrote:
           | This might be the first time I've heard Tom Petty and banger
           | in the same sentence. People tending to use banger this way
           | tend to not be Tom Petty fans. Nothing wrong with crossing
           | over, but it was a shock to the system.
        
           | wrboyce wrote:
           | Never heard it before, but just listened to it and we both
           | enjoyed: so thanks! (Also, what a killjoy whoever downvoted
           | my above comment is!)
        
           | qingcharles wrote:
           | My first thought wasn't so classy, it was this banger from
           | Billie Piper:
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           | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtT4MWzohRY
        
       | slowhadoken wrote:
       | Is this a reference to the Liquid Television short?
        
       | dylan604 wrote:
       | I'm reminded of old Kai's PowerTools Goo, only animated.
        
       | miffe wrote:
       | Wish it had a fps limiter so I could see what's going on.
        
       | Lammy wrote:
       | It reminds me of the "Ducks" PLAYSTATION3 demo from E3 2005
       | a.k.a. Super Rub-a-Dub:
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       | https://archive.org/details/ps3duckdemo
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Rub_%27a%27_Dub
        
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