Matt Parker and Steve Mould are two of the best STEM educators on YouTube. They are both witty and experimental. Parker is a straight maths kind of guy but Mould goes all over the place and really scratches that experimental/DIY itch.
If you enjoy this video, I highly recommend checking out more of their channels.
Author of "wake up" here. Yes, that one reactivated me again. We thought (as size coding community) that we found every cellular automaton trick years ago, but then Plex came around and showed us otherwise ♥
kennywinker 1 days ago [-]
Definitely thought this was a 16b parameter llm, not a 16 byte demo.
msikora 1 days ago [-]
Same! This is way cooler tho!
userbinator 9 hours ago [-]
9 orders of magnitude difference!
hei-lima 1 days ago [-]
I'm really impressed. Those are the things that made me love programming and computing. It's all so beautiful, it's TRULY art. It's a shame that in the industry we don't usually have the opportunities to make something like that, with AIs and all that...
jonhohle 1 days ago [-]
If this was made in Electron it would probably be a 300MB download and around 1GB of RAM.
I swear watching this kind of projects occasionally is the only thing keeping me from dropping tech and going to work as a mailman or something.
ropable 7 hours ago [-]
Really, really small generative code like this has me shouting "Witch!"
Bravo.
smokel 18 hours ago [-]
There are only 2^128 of such demos. How much of those are valid DOS programs? If we narrow it down to ones that generate both video and sound, I guess there are much less, which should motivate more people to try and find one :)
nojvek 17 hours ago [-]
2^128 is still a huuuuuge space.
mlyle 8 hours ago [-]
It is big but the preconditions shave off a lot. You need to get to display memory and also get to a sound port and need to do both in a loop where each varies. And you need to build it out of valid instructions. That puts you at more like 2^75.
Only a tiny fraction of those outputs will have any complexity. And only a tiny fraction of those will be aesthetic.
I don’t bet on us finding a -ton- of interesting sound plus video demos in 16 bytes.
mg 20 hours ago [-]
Makes me wonder how many bytes the shortest possible Mandelbrot implementation would need.
HellMood 19 hours ago [-]
Author of "wakeup" here. You would would need between 32 and 64 bytes. I have something that almost looks like one in 32 but it's not published yet ;)
HellMood 19 hours ago [-]
At the same event I released "Broccolori", a 32 Byte fractal for old-school PCs.
I did NOT expect this 16 bytes demo to also have sound! What an outstanding piece of art.
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adastra22 10 hours ago [-]
I once made a ray tracer demo in 4K. I thought that was hard…
electroglyph 1 days ago [-]
i'll upvote this each time it's submitted
soundworlds 6 hours ago [-]
And cool creations like this is why we get excited about technology
Dwedit 16 hours ago [-]
Did not work on PCEM for some reason.
nzhumasseiit 16 hours ago [-]
that's crazy. level to which i'm striving haha
selfsimilar 14 hours ago [-]
16 bytes equals immediate “black magic” and “it’s a witch”. I get it in the abstract - generative art and CAs and fractals have infinite depth. But this is madness. I love it so much
immanuwell 22 hours ago [-]
love the sign "This text is handwritten" at the bottom, that's awesome
sneak 1 days ago [-]
This is absolutely obscene. I am floored. Sweet hack.
https://youtu.be/b-Fa6HtvGtQ?si=LpQszgA9_K-m3V3-
If you enjoy this video, I highly recommend checking out more of their channels.
https://www.youtube.com/@standupmaths
https://www.youtube.com/@SteveMould
That other demo didn't even have sound.
This is hell of a good work. A masterpiece to retire after. (or more realistically, chase it on other architectures)
I'm not sure if they did a writeup for m8trix (a predecessor) but I tried dissecting it around when it came out (2014): https://scot.tg/2014/05/31/amazing-code-density/
Bravo.
I don’t bet on us finding a -ton- of interesting sound plus video demos in 16 bytes.
https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=106205
Related to the Dragon Fractal, with a twist:)