Journal

I stumbled upon this: http://www.soyoucode.com/2011/coding-giant-under-microscope-farbrausch . . . and promptly fell in love with the demos there from Farbrausch: .the .product .debris .kkrieger Magellan That melding of music and animated 3D graphics grabs a hold of me like nothing else. I don’t really know why. The fact that it’s done in such a small space (e.g. 64 KB for the first one) makes it more impressive, of course. Maybe that should be a sad reflection on just how formulaic the things I like are, if they’re encoded that small (although, that ignores just how much is present in addition, in the CPU and the GPU and the OS and the drivers and in the design of the computer), but I don’t much care - formulas encode patterns of sorts, and we’re pattern-matching machines.…more