Bitwise Liminal
Creative
demoscene animation
SHOW HN2024
How HN took it
15 positive, 19 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 34 comments about the project. Thread score +0.44.
Idea: 4 for, 0 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive size-to-visual ratio for 256 bytes
From 3 comments
This is impressive and actually looks like a real movie scene. And to think this only fits in 256 bytes makes you rethink how bloated the things we are using everyday are and…
clemiclemen on HNThat IS the film. What's remarkable about it is how small the file size is. It's 256 bytes! To explain how impressive that is, the entire film itself is about 58 times smaller…
spartanatreyu on HNLife generated from DNA in a vacuum would probably be pretty boring. The entirety of life requires some surroundings to interact with, and as it stands there is but one of those,…
smokel on HN
Creative, atmospheric, unsettling visual style
From 3 comments
Cyber-hallucinogenic cryptopoetry.
sebastianconcpt on HNVery J G Ballard. Nice work.
nickdothutton on HNNice visual style!
riidom on HN
Cool use of SVG onload and canvas id globals
From 2 comments
A minor note: this is the first time I've seen an svg embedded in a canvas purely for it's onload event. Within this context the canvas is referred to by its (bare) id. How…
javajosh on HNTIL that elements with ids are exposed as global variables in JS.
naniwaduni on HN
Objections
Hard to understand what the film shows
From 1 comment
Can someone explain to me what are we seeing in the short film? I see some black and white animation with boxes moving and some noisy lines on it. But I'm not sure I understand…
mapreduce on HN
Taxing on CPU and fan speed
From 1 comment
This made my 5560U ramp it's sysfan up 100%. :-)
iszomer on HN
Requests
Annotated explanation of the code
From 1 comment
Is there an annotated version breaking down each part of this for us lesser mortals?
phs318u on HN
Questions
How the math produces the image
From 2 comments
What the fuck. How?
cal85 on HNCan someone explain to me what are we seeing in the short film? I see some black and white animation with boxes moving and some noisy lines on it. But I'm not sure I understand…
mapreduce on HN
Why canvas id is accessible as a global in JS
From 2 comments
Why is that allowed? I didn’t realize one could do that in js.
cdelsolar on HNI've also noticed this a few years ago, but where is this documented? Was it already the case in IE6 for example? Have you found any definitive source, which states this behaviour?
onetom on HN
Alternatives named
Other 256-byte demos such as Megapole and Cross My Heart
From 2 comments
Reminds me a bit of Megapole (another 256b demo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Av7Sc7yGY
zokier on HNRecent and related: Cross My Heart – A Frogger Demake in 256 Bytes of HTML/JS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39336677 - Feb 2024 (44 comments) Normally we downweight…
dang on HN
8K demos such as The Sheep and the Flower
From 1 comment
This is impressive and actually looks like a real movie scene. And to think this only fits in 256 bytes makes you rethink how bloated the things we are using everyday are and…
clemiclemen on HN