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POV-Ray Short Code Animation Winners

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the 512-bytes-is-plenty dept.

Paul Bourke writes "Every year the POVRay rendering community run a short code competition. The challenge is create an image using a limited number of bytes, normally just 256. This year the competition required the artist to create an animation rather than just an image. The winning entries are now online where you can see what can be created for a meager 512 bytes."

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  1. Slashdot + Many Videos = Where is the mirror by augustz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you are going to link to what looks like a single machine that is supposed to serve up loads of videos, a mirror would be nice in the story submission :)

  2. 512B pov-ray? Screw that! by Xtense · · Score: 5, Insightful

    POV-Ray? Screw that, see what can be made in a 256B EXECUTABLE. Just to give some popular examples, tube/3SC, PHOBIA/ind. Yup, the demoscene was there a long time before, and still it churns out some beautiful code that boggles the mind. Nothing impressive to see here though, just a fat-ass raytracer with a small input file.

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    1. Re:512B pov-ray? Screw that! by neumayr · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Heh, yeah, let's keep the fire going:
      Utilizing OpenGL/DirectX you say? So, the code's 15 or whatever bytes long, but dynamically linked to a huge library. That's not so far removed from interfacing with a raytracer, at least it's a lot closer to it than the demos you originally posted.

      I personally never did anything for Povray - honestly I didn't know it could do animation before this story. But given the range of quality of the animations in this contest, getting anything done in a 512 bytes Povray files seems to be a noteworthy achievement.
      So, let them cheer :)

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