POV-Ray Short Code Animation Winners

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."

Comments

I think...

[Anonymous Coward]

...the second animation pretty much shows what happened to their server.

512B pov-ray? Screw that!

[Xtense]

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.

Re:512B pov-ray? Screw that!

[Cctoide]

No, mine's smaller!

Re:512B pov-ray? Screw that!

[Xtense]

Oh no, the 15B moire pattern is pure assembler, no libs attached. I had a link somewhere, let me find it in a moment (crap internet connections suck!). You could say that it's cheating, using the MCGA 13h 320x200 256color mode (or for the pros out there - raping text mode's charset to produce something weird), but that's one step from declaring that the true form of demomaking is building your own hardware and coding effects for it with your own assembly. Which in itself would be immensely cool, but a bit overkill. As for the OpenGL/DirectX 4K stuff, it's just moving on with the times - every normally used computer out there has at least DirectX 8 and OpenGL 1.1 with compatible hardware on it, so it would be a shame not to use natural-environment libraries.

Couldn't find the 15B one, so here's a one-byte bigger thing: fr-016: bytes/Farbrausch.

I remember doing school stuff in POV-Ray, simple things like cubes, spheres, intersecting cones and whatnot for my math geometry/stereometry classes. While not having heaps of experience like these guys, i think i can safely assume that, while requiring creativity and effort, these aren't truly that hard to make, since this is mostly 3d math, fractals and quadrics sprinkled a bit with randomness on the top. But i guess i just get my boner from creative software hacks (which, in turn, are too 3d/2d math, just hacked up beyond all recognition), not scripts. Oh well, different fetishes ;) .

Re:Slashdot + Many Videos = Where is the mirror

[xaxa]

Robot filter
Sorry, some robots are filtered from this site.
You are using Wget/1.10.2
This filtering is not intended to restrict your enjoyment of this site. There is a very large amount of data contained
within and robots who attempt to copy the whole site adversely affect our bandwidth and wallet.

Anyway, here's the winning result:
#local C=clock*pi;#macro B(N,F)sphere{0F/7 1scale 1-pow(I.5)translate-I*F*x rotate y*N*90rotate-N*x*pow(5I)*10*sin(I*2-C*8+i)scale.2+x*.8translate-x}#end#local i=C;#while(itranslate*2rotate x*37pigment{slope y}}#local i=i+pi/8;#end light_source{1spotlight}media{intervals 6scattering{2rgb/99}}
(by Jeff Reifel)

Re:Slashdot + Many Videos = Where is the mirror

[xaxa]

Forget my previous post, the NYUD.net mirror is working well.

Videos of first 4 prizes

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=cubancigar11

(Posting anonymously)

Re:Slashdot + Many Videos = Where is the mirror

[MadnessASAP]

I'm going to forgo posting with mod points and actually post a meassge, the reason the first poster did not get modded up was because he posted AC and only posted the solution, whereas xaxa posted the solution, the author and the reason why mirroring the website wouldn't work.