@guidoschmidt Oooh we are still very much in the middle of this one with our minds, but some good suggestions in the near future are:
Revision. The biggest demoparty, great to visit in person too. They have a 256 byte compo, but you might enjoy doing bigger entries too: https://2024.revision-party.net/
Outline: If you like small and cozy, Outline is in NL but close to the border, so might be worth it. Real life only. Does have a 128/256 byte compo. https://outlinedemoparty.nl/
@lovebyteparty haha for sure still riding the lovebyte wave, pretty much looking forward to the tiny exe graphics today, but thanks already for these recommendations 👍🏽
Since our son Emil was born last summer I did not have much time for personal creative practice, but during the Christmas holidays I had some fun getting into a virtual game console called TIC-80 thanks to #lovebytetcc.
So I did my first 256 byte demoscene production for the @lovebyteparty new-talent competition.
It's called Hellschreiber inspired by a 1920s teleprinting machine invented by Rudolf Hell.
It was quite challenging to get everything down to only 256 bytes, but also fun. There's a bunch of techniques you can make use of like manipulating memory via memory address directly and also there are tools that help to pack the original source code by e.g. removing comments and whitespace etc.
#AdventOfCode#day18#part2 was a bit more tricky, for #part1 I was visualizing the map using a simple pgm image, now with the super large numbers on part 2 I used a single SVG polygon.
#AdventOfCode day 11 part 1 was super fun... dug out the good old Jack Bresenham algorithm for drawing lines between each pair of stars 🤩 ... 👋 to my former computer graphics professor Prof. Müller 🙃
#AdventOfCode 2023 day 11 part 1: Cosmic expansion. After extending rows and columns between the stars, I've used an oldschool line drawing algorithm by Jack Bresenham. adventofcode.com/2023/day/11 #AdventOfCode 2023 day 11 part 1: Cosmic expansion. After extending rows and columns between the stars, I've used an oldschool line drawing algorithm by Jack Bresenham. adventofcode.com/2023/day/11
@guidoschmidt I love how "bubbly" your rotated tree ended up... It looks very decorative, but also like something I'd definitely try to eat when nobody is looking! 🤩
Code (294 chars):
function r(b,a,o,s)return b+math.sin(a-o)s end function TIC()cls(9)x=120 y=68 c=10 o=7.8 s=0.2 q=12 b=60l=line for i=1,c do a=3.142*i/c l(x,y,r(x,a,0,b),r(y,a,o,b),q)for j=q,36,q do k=j+q u=r(x,a,0,j)v=r(y,a,o,j)l(u,v,r(x,a-s,0,k),r(y,a-s,o,k),q)l(u,v,r(x,a+s,0,k),r(y,a+s,o,k),q)end end end