Pilgrimage 2004 American Demoparty Announced

RaD Man [ACiD] writes "Pilgrimage 2004, the one and only American demoparty, will be held this September 17-18th in Salt Lake City, Utah; the birthplace of modern computer graphics. Coders, artists, musicians and enthusiasts from around the world will be turning out to learn, socialize and compete for fame and fortune. An audio-visual invitation real-time demo is also available."

Comments

Re:Do I like Demos?

[Anonymous Coward]

the how you do something is as important as the result. traditionally, the demoscene has not been about the artistic value of the created works perse, though as the medium has evolved, it's focus has shifted more towards that. but still, a lot of it is about just being *able* to things. like, being *able* to make a functional 3d engine work on a C64, being *able* to fit a fully functioning texture generator, softsynth, 3d engine plus effects and 2d effects into 64KB.

art is more than about just the way it looks, wether we're talking about computer art or traditional art.

Re:Do I like Demos?

[Knos]

In a more didactic way:

First, the scene is a community, so it is not so much about demos than about the way they are created and shared.

One of the main values is efficiency. People can and will distribute demos and intros easily because they are rather small and efficient. Inefficiency (pre-rendered movies) hurts redistribution.

Secondly, by having to be run realtime, demos emphasize code over any other sort of more static methods to create visuals/music. It is in that sense necessarly a generative discipline, whose medium is the manipulation of information and the emergence of concrete visuals / sounds from an abstract material, the code.

Thirdly, well, the scene is no more interesting than tractor pulling or poker championships, I guess it does look very similar at times. It plays the computer equivalent to what graffiti plays for the visual arts:
- a style
- a pop movement
- a new medium

I see Microsoft

[Trogre]

... is a major sponsor.

I guess there's not much hope of seeing Linux demos this year.

*sigh*

That Teapot

[0racle]

I always wondered why that teapot was a standard privative in 3d Studio Max. Also another siting they don't seem to have in there is the 3d pipes screen saver. If you changed the joint options to 'Mixed' on the 3d pipes screensaver in Windows and watch it for a while, some of the joints will be that teapot.