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Fantastic js1k Submissions
An anonymous reader writes "With just five days left in the current competition to write an app in only 1kb of JavaScript, the submissions are becoming increasingly impressive. Take for instance a beautiful 3D animation drawing on a 2D canvas. Or a mine cart animation. If you wait long enough you'll actually get to caves! Can you manage to write a demo that fits on the hall of fame before the deadline closes?"
The fact that a lot of the work is being done by the javascript language itself makes this somewhat less impressive.
You shut your whore mouth. Did you look at the demos mentioned in the summary? There's a fucking a mine cart ride. It goes up and down while accounting for acceleration due to gravity. Some of the overhead lights randomly flicker. There's goddamn caves. With stalactites.
So go ahead and shrug it off if you're not interested. But I'll be fucked by a pineapple before I let you dismiss them as anything less than the accomplishments they are.
Hear hear! I'll also be fucked by a pineapple!
"You can justify anything by putting it in quotes, adding a famous name and making it a sig" - Albert Einstein
Assuming you're aware that comparing a 1k source to a binary is a pretty weak comparison I have to point out another thing. The himalaja demo uses DirectX 9 whereas these demos aren't even allowed to use WebGL. Demos like this might not be as impressive but the author had to calculate the lighting himself instead of just calling iCanHasLightSource.
Román Cortés has written a nice, detailed explanation of how he made his Furbee demo:
http://www.romancortes.com/blog/furbee-my-js1k-spring-13-entry/
Very interesting read.
Me