mopardude87
Diamond Member
Edit:Not gonna bother.
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KMFJD
Lifer
malachite
CZroe
Lifer
Yeah, but now that they aren't pushing hardware to the limit I'm kinda confused that this is still a thing. I mean, are they even bothering to generate the music on the PC that's running the demo or is it pre-recorded these days? If the latter, then why not just prerender the visuals too? Then it's just an artistic short film competition with a weird retro scener theme! I watched quite a bit and none of it seems to be trying to push PCs to their graphical limits like they used to.
The reason we were amazed by bouncing reflective spheres and rotating cubes before was because it was amazing to see our computers do those things in the first place... not anymore. That's why the demoscene was influencing performance benchmarks like 3Dmark and such.
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KMFJD
Lifer
This was the winner of the 256k competition
www.sizecoding.org
my mind broke trying to understand it, i'm not a coder though
Memories - SizeCoding
my mind broke trying to understand it, i'm not a coder though
KMFJD
Lifer
no idea, i wasn't even aware there was a scene still
lxskllr
No Lifer
A honey bee uses symbology to give directions to food sources to other bees(part of a larger article)...
"But perhaps the best-known and most insane bit of intelligence from bees is what’s known as the “waggle dance.” This is a method of communication that the bee uses to tell other bees in the hive the location of a flower or source of food. Here’s how it works: a bee performs the dance on a vertical surface inside the hive. The dance is shaped like a coffee bean: roughly, an oval with a line down the middle. Dancing straight up means to fly in the direction of the sun, straight down means away from the sun, and left and right mean to fly to the left or the right of the sun.
The bee travels in a figure-eight pattern, tracing the line in the middle before performing the loops around the outside of the coffee bean shape. The amount of time it takes the bee to make its circuit around the outside of the coffee bean tells other bees how far away the food source is: a one-second loop means, roughly, that the food source is a kilometer away. The longer the loop, the farther away the food source is.
The bee will repeat this dance many times to indicate the quality of the food source: a really great one will find the bee doing this over and over again, yelling “IT’S A KILOMETER NORTHWEST OF HERE, IT’S A KILOMETER NORTHWEST OF HERE, IT’S A KILOMETER NORTHWEST OF HERE” for minutes on end. A decent but not quite as good source might find the bee repeating the message only a few times."
getpocket.com
"But perhaps the best-known and most insane bit of intelligence from bees is what’s known as the “waggle dance.” This is a method of communication that the bee uses to tell other bees in the hive the location of a flower or source of food. Here’s how it works: a bee performs the dance on a vertical surface inside the hive. The dance is shaped like a coffee bean: roughly, an oval with a line down the middle. Dancing straight up means to fly in the direction of the sun, straight down means away from the sun, and left and right mean to fly to the left or the right of the sun.
The bee travels in a figure-eight pattern, tracing the line in the middle before performing the loops around the outside of the coffee bean shape. The amount of time it takes the bee to make its circuit around the outside of the coffee bean tells other bees how far away the food source is: a one-second loop means, roughly, that the food source is a kilometer away. The longer the loop, the farther away the food source is.
The bee will repeat this dance many times to indicate the quality of the food source: a really great one will find the bee doing this over and over again, yelling “IT’S A KILOMETER NORTHWEST OF HERE, IT’S A KILOMETER NORTHWEST OF HERE, IT’S A KILOMETER NORTHWEST OF HERE” for minutes on end. A decent but not quite as good source might find the bee repeating the message only a few times."
I Asked Leading Entomologists: 'What’s The Smartest Bug In The World?'
Some insects can count, recognize human faces, even invent languages.
MtnMan
Diamond Member
I don't think the technology to record sound existed in that era. Just general crowd noise, can't hear the ball bouncing. Kinda think it was added.
But still cool
shortylickens
No Lifer
Peanuts was Originally Lil Folks, and had a different style.
shortylickens
No Lifer
Chris Pratt lost weight specifically to get his role in Moneyball.
shortylickens
No Lifer
CZroe
Lifer
Quoth the raven: "Nevermore."
'The day the music died', February 3, 1959 when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash in Iowa. Waylon Jennings was the bass player, and was supposed to be on that flight but there was no room. He had to drive or take a buss to the next gig. Anyway he joked to Buddy, "Well, hope your ol' plane crashes!". Waylon was pretty upset about it for a long time.
shortylickens
No Lifer
Psych seasons 1 thru 5 were shot on 16mm film.
Seasons 6 thru 8 were shot on a Red One MX.
Seasons 6 thru 8 were shot on a Red One MX.
lxskllr
No Lifer
@highland145 's question of "How many trees go into a can of cedar oil?" got me reading pages on cedar. I re-read the wiki on it, and ran across this. I've read the page before, but didn't take particular notice...
en.wikipedia.org
Juniperus virginiana - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
shortylickens
No Lifer
Yeah we know.
Everybody knows.
There was a movie.
Everybody knows.
There was a movie.
shortylickens
No Lifer
You guys remember that urban legend of the Atari cartridges buried in the desert?
Well, guess what.......
www.imdb.com
Well, guess what.......
Atari: Game Over (2014) - Reference view - IMDb
Atari: Game Over: Directed by Zak Penn. With Zak Penn, Joe Lewandowski, Robert Rentschler, Paul Sanchez. A crew search for all of the old Atari 2600 game cartridges of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" that were tossed into a landfill in the 1980s.
www.imdb.com
CZroe
Lifer
This was never an "urban legend" even though people started saying this around 10 years ago. It was reported in the papers back then and everything. Buried in Alamogordo right outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Didn't even need to look that up. 🙂You guys remember that urban legend of the Atari cartridges buried in the desert?
Well, guess what.......
Atari: Game Over (2014) - Reference view - IMDb
Atari: Game Over: Directed by Zak Penn. With Zak Penn, Joe Lewandowski, Robert Rentschler, Paul Sanchez. A crew search for all of the old Atari 2600 game cartridges of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" that were tossed into a landfill in the 1980s.
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