Wake up! 16b

I'm really impressed. Those are the things that made me love programming and computing. It's all so beautiful, it's TRULY art. It's a shame that in the industry we don't usually have the opportunities to make something like that, with AIs and all that...

jonhohle• 2 months ago

If this was made in Electron it would probably be a 300MB download and around 1GB of RAM.

electroglyph• 2 months ago

i'll upvote this each time it's submitted

tedggh• 2 months ago

This sent me on a one hour long rabbit hole that ended with two guys building a Sierpinski triangle with recursive PowerPoint presentations

https://youtu.be/b-Fa6HtvGtQ?si=LpQszgA9_K-m3V3-

wuschel• 2 months ago

Thank you for that. Refreshing! :)

soulofmischief• 2 months ago

Matt Parker and Steve Mould are two of the best STEM educators on YouTube. They are both witty and experimental. Parker is a straight maths kind of guy but Mould goes all over the place and really scratches that experimental/DIY itch.

If you enjoy this video, I highly recommend checking out more of their channels.

https://www.youtube.com/@standupmaths

https://www.youtube.com/@SteveMould

namanyayg• 2 months ago

One of the linked demos, "rainbow surf", got me hypnotized. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKLhH_ANwIc

HellMood5• 2 months ago

Author of "wake up" here. Yes, that one reactivated me again. We thought (as size coding community) that we found every cellular automaton trick years ago, but then Plex came around and showed us otherwise ♥

__del__• 2 months ago

i can barely accept this is possible

immanuwell• 2 months ago

love the sign "This text is handwritten" at the bottom, that's awesome

coffeeking001• 2 months ago

But big model is really better

sph• 2 months ago

I did NOT expect this 16 bytes demo to also have sound! What an outstanding piece of art.

mg• 2 months ago

Makes me wonder how many bytes the shortest possible Mandelbrot implementation would need.

HellMood5• 2 months ago

Author of "wakeup" here. You would would need between 32 and 64 bytes. I have something that almost looks like one in 32 but it's not published yet ;)

HellMood5• 2 months ago

At the same event I released "Broccolori", a 32 Byte fractal for old-school PCs.

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=106205

Related to the Dragon Fractal, with a twist:)

smokel• 2 months ago

There are only 2^128 of such demos. How much of those are valid DOS programs? If we narrow it down to ones that generate both video and sound, I guess there are much less, which should motivate more people to try and find one :)

nojvek• 2 months ago

2^128 is still a huuuuuge space.

mlyle• 2 months ago

It is big but the preconditions shave off a lot. You need to get to display memory and also get to a sound port and need to do both in a loop where each varies. And you need to build it out of valid instructions. That puts you at more like 2^75. Only a tiny fraction of those outputs will have any complexity. And only a tiny fraction of those will be aesthetic.

I don’t bet on us finding a -ton- of interesting sound plus video demos in 16 bytes.

torben-friis• 2 months ago

I swear watching this kind of projects occasionally is the only thing keeping me from dropping tech and going to work as a mailman or something.

Dwedit• 2 months ago

Did not work on PCEM for some reason.

nzhumasseiit• 2 months ago

that's crazy. level to which i'm striving haha

selfsimilar• 2 months ago

16 bytes equals immediate “black magic” and “it’s a witch”. I get it in the abstract - generative art and CAs and fractals have infinite depth. But this is madness. I love it so much

s3graham• 2 months ago

Super cool!

I'm not sure if they did a writeup for m8trix (a predecessor) but I tried dissecting it around when it came out (2014): https://scot.tg/2014/05/31/amazing-code-density/

HellMood5• 2 months ago

Howdy =) I didn't spot your analysis back then, but it's (still) spot on. A tiny addition, 0xA0000 to 0xB0000 is VGA memory when using graphics modes, so it's quite safe to write there until it flows into the visual text mode memory.

adastra22• 2 months ago

I once made a ray tracer demo in 4K. I thought that was hard…

ropable• 2 months ago

Really, really small generative code like this has me shouting "Witch!"

Bravo.

soundworlds• 2 months ago

And cool creations like this is why we get excited about technology

HappMacDonald• 2 months ago

I'm curious how easy it would be to run this on a Win10 or Win11 64bit PC. Like, would it need dosbox? Virtualbox running a DOS VM?

When I try it in Dosbox I do get a very vague impression of matrix rain but no sound. The characters in the matrix rain are all uppercase and lowercase M's and U's though and they do not seem to cycle through many states at all (just partly on screen and nothing).

HellMood5• 2 months ago

It requires specific graphics card setup ( it simulates an old system) Use the provided config from here https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=106210 Edit: for Dosbox X

Wake up! 16b

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