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The Beautiful Chaos of 1,000 Trackmania Racers
Mark Wallace writes "This 3-minute video of 1,000 runs of the same Trackmania Sunrise road course, overlaid on each other, turns the game into a gorgeous picture of an ordered system tending toward chaos. The pack starts out in perfect shape and becomes a glorious mess by the end of the course. Plus, it's just beautiful stuff." I'm normally not one for linking videos, but this is a great way to spend a few minutes on a Tuesday morning.
Hmm, I can't see any video on that page.. Can someone who *can* tell me if it's embedded WMP or Flash? Or perhaps a download link I'm missing?
All I need now is flash player 8 for linux!
> no, yes, maybe (tagging beta)
Either of these will work.1 2321m id=12321
http://www.gametrailers.com/umremote310.swf?umid=
http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher_gate4.swf?u
This is an impressive video. Anyone know the technical details of how it was created?
It was thoroughly impressive.
...not sure what SORT of poetry but definately got the motion bit.
Thanks :)
I can't see the video cos all of the sites listed so far are blocked at work (I'll check it out when I get home). But the description sounds similar to the Gradius video that was posted here on Slashdot a while back.
This guy's the limit!
Amazing stuff, apparently achieved by 1000 simulateous replays which would have taken absolutely forever! Kudos to whoever made it!
I'm afraid to compare. Are the other versions of the video as startlingly loud as the YouTube one?
That's a pet peeve of mine, especially on YouTube where the videos are rarely normalized with each other in volume.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
That's pretty neat, but I would have preferred more wide overhead angles to see the overall flow of cars, there were way too many close up views that didn't really show much beyond a traffic jam.
Oh, and the race starts at 48 seconds, you can ffwd past the overly long credits at the start.
I didn't know they were making a Blues Brothers III.
I especially like how they all fly into the ocean. Remind anyone of an old Rockstar game or maybe just a rodent? I mean seriously, these cars seem intent upon their own demise.
This sig isn't original enough, it's time to come up with something witty...
Check out the 3k volcano also.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z-YxQ398Kjw&NR
along with the swarm of locusts?
yeah... now it's a swarm of YELLOW cars!
*makes appointment with therapist*
Saw this on Kotaku a few days ago, and its just as good second time around. This is the kind of thing that could be used to advertise games - its something that can be understood and enjoyed by anyone, game player or not.
It reminds me a lot of being driven around Genoa, Italy earlier this year by a lovely but utterly terrifying young Russian woman I work with.
Except that traffic had inter-car collision-detection enabled. Eeek.
Tedious Bloggy Stuff - hooray?
There's a similar video out there (it's on youtube) but using 3000 replays. In that one all the cars are red, it actually looks quit a lot like lava flowing down a mountain. Fairly impressive way to simulate a fluid.
I got bored watching the credits, can anyone tell me who won?
That's what's beautiful about this video. If they did a simulation with clipping on, it would be the same old thing. This is a relatively new idea (at least for me), which is why is brightened up the start of my week so effectively.
It'd be interesting to see this in platform games (ex: mario 64), though it'd be a bit cluttered if you tracked each mario AND goomba together. I dunno.
Now where the hell can I find this game? It looks like shitloads of fun. :)
Nice car-ticle system...
That's right. I went there.
How did he get the camera to follow the exact same path in each run? Doesn't the camera usually follow the car?
"THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS ONLY ME." -Death
Funny, it reminded me of the film Rendesvous. Film director Claude Lelouch drives a Ferrari (275SWB?) across town. The town is Paris, and the trip across town takes nine minutes. Just. Fucking. Amazing.
Just junk food for thought...
I've got the flashblock extension for Firefox. It automatically blocks all flash, with a transparent placeholder frame and small icon that I can click on to play the flash.
The cool thing about Rendezvous is that the director just slapped a camera on the side of his car (a V-12 powered Ferrari) and took off through the streets of Paris. No permits, no closed streets, just the real deal -- the near misses are for real. The game video was pretty neat, too!
Cool links.
Or my second (after "my god, how much trailer are they going to run?")... this looks cool but I'd be MUCH more interested in a view that tracked the cars and showed them behaving like a fluid...
How did they do it, OGLE?
I am part of the development team of the game, or I must say of the tool. And it is really cool to see players to use the game like this. They are the stars of this type of games, like the actors are for movies. I find it funny that the most seen video on gametrailers now is made by a player. Players has big talents and they are like a processor into the game, a creative one.
How is being a jackass street racing 'cool'? This mentality has to be stopped - being a reckless asshat ripping around at ridiculous speeds in a city is how hundreds of people are killed every year.
Then it inspires a generation of retards that don't know how to drive to try and reproduce tihs in their own town. We have a major street racing problem happening and it's a direct result of this kind of video.
Keep the idiotic behavior in the simulations and off the streets please
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I found the originals:
Original 1K Project
3k Project
Anyone know where the 2k Project or a crisper version of the 3k Project are?
The sound was probably a Ferrari, but the car certainly wasn't.
It was a Mercedes Benz 450SEL 6.9, a truly legendary machine. You can see part of the grille here.
It is a great piece of film, one of my favourites.
Eat the rich.
I would love to play/own this game since I first heard about it, but after reading the horror stories about Starforce and what it does, I just couldn't do it. It's very unfortunate...
I will buy this game when it doesn't have something like Starforce.
Two words: natural selection.
Three more words: deal with it.
Cool links.
You do realise everyone thinks you're a tosser now, right?
Is there, possibly, a version of the 3Kproject that hasn't been put through the digital blender 3 or four times?
Seriously I could barely make anything out on the youtube version.
Maybe if anyone knew what a tosser was, they might agree with you.
I was very interested in this game but, back then at least, it was "infected" with the Starforce copy protection system. Can anybody confirm if this is still the case?
please! no starforce in your next release, I've played the demos and loved them, and will buy Nations if it's Starforce free...
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if these retards were only killing themselves, I'd say 'have at it', all the better. But when hundreds (thousands?) of people are killed every year due to idiots racing around the streets, it becomes exponentially worse.
Anyone whining about terrorism should look at the automobile fatality rates around the world - the TRUE terrorists are people driving 3000 lb moving weapons pretending they are all 'cool' while street racing.
http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/
Fatalities
drivers & passengers: 37,594
pedestrians / non-motorists: 43,443
Almost 100,000 people killed by vehicles just in the states - and yet one terrorist incident causes the entire world to freak right the fuck out. The odds of getting killed by a terrorist in comparison is effectively a rounding error.
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