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Bored GPU is Bored! (take a suggestion, leave a suggestion, please!)
do you have a GPU (or set of eyes) that are bored? here are some non-interactive, realtime suggestions (mostly demoscene) to show The State of the Art, at least as of a certain time frame.
[skip to the GPU-wreckers via this anchor]
note: while you should always be careful, depending on what antivirus you use, some of the 64 and 4K demos could probably set off the air raid sirens. pouet.net/scene.org mirrors should be pretty trustable. i put a 99.9% trust in them.
note2: also, some of these may need an Nvidia GPU.
note3: graphical difficulty is probably graded considering an age of Radeon 5000 series+
note4: i guess i'll use (at least in my first suggestions) the symbol ᴰ to indicate that the demo ... well, kinda uses objects and visual effects that might be a bit cheesy to people not used to the demoscene, but, IMO, contribute to making it "graphically interesting" ...
anywho, if you have suggestions please leave them, too.
let's start off taking it easy on the GPU...
2003: Demo: farbrausch - the.popular.demo
graphical difficulty: 0.5/10
design (graphics, music, polish): 10/10
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=9450
2005: 64K: Conspiracy - The Assembly '05 Invitation
graphical difficulty: 2/10
design: 6/10ᴰ
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=16326
2005: Demo: ASD - Iconoclast
graphical difficulty: 3/10
design: 9/10ᴰ
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=18350
heh ... "viewers who liked this, also liked ASD - Dreamchild and ASD - Planet Risk"
2005: 64K: Traction - Fiat Homo
graphical difficulty: 1/10
design: 8/10
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=18342
viewers (well, me ;) also liked Conspiracy - Memento
2005: Demo: Plastic - Final Audition
graphical difficulty: 6/10
design: 7/10ᴰ
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=18766
Last edited by plonk420; 03-02-2012 at 03:27 PM.
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in case (those of) you (familiar with the demoscene) haven't noticed, these are being pulled from http://awards.scene.org/archive.php with a bit of my own picking and choosing.
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2006: Demo: MFX - Deities (and the happier remix, Lucy in the Sky with Deities -- see below)
graphical difficulty: 4?/10
design: 6/10
note: these guys usually have disturbing visuals and or annoyingly epilepsy-inducing unneeded flashes. this was the first demo i liked by them.
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=24487
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=30272
FLT's Track One won awards, but i prefer:
2007: Demo: Carillon & Cyberiad (CNCD) and Fairlight (FLT) - Halfsome
graphical difficulty: 6/10
design: 8/10
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=31098
and
2007: Demo: FLT and CNCD and Orange - Media Error
graphical difficulty: 5/10
design: 7/10
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=31574
i just love something about Fairlight's "'tude" ... probably mainly coming from their music.
2007: lkcc and Bauknecht - Above
graphical difficulty: 4/10
design: 8/10
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=30255
2007: sightly bigger than 64K: farbrausch - fr-041: debris
graphical difficulty: 4/10
design: 5/10
note: the sheer amount of content for the filesize blew many minds in the demoscene O_O
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=30244
2007: ASD - Lifeforce (award winner for 2007)
graphical difficulty: 3/10
design: 10/10
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=31571
viewers also liked Happiness is Around the Bend ... hell, most recent ASD releases
comments? (we need to push this to page 2 to keep browsers from assploding from all the embeds ;)
Last edited by plonk420; 03-02-2012 at 03:18 PM.
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actually, let's get some comments so i can bump this to page 2. it's thrashing my CPU when i load the page ;)
Last edited by plonk420; 03-01-2012 at 06:15 PM.
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I remember back in the day (late 1990's or early 2000's) getting this spanish monthly magazine that included a CD with alot of software as usual but also some demoscene demos. They did some pretty amazing things back in the day.
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yeah, i kinda lost track post-BBS ~1995, after i discovered MP3s and other various binaries on usenet.
then i got a bit obsessed with making my own MP3s. go go custom config.sys+autoexec.bat so i could rip CDDA on my unfriendly-to-ripping-CDDA CDROM!
you can probably find most, if not all of the big demos from back then on Youtube, thankfully! (or capped/demoscene.tv)
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and now a break for randomness:
2008: 9.5K (os, music, graphics, drivers): lft - Craft
graphical difficulty: 10?/10
design: 8/10
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=50141
2008: ½-bit Cheese (HBC) - Field Trip
graphical difficulty: 4?/10
design: 11/10
(non-realtime graphics)
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=51144
viewers also liked (most things by HBC)
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2008: Demo: farbrausch and neuro - Masagin (Nvision 08 Invitation)
graphical difficulty: 3/10
design: 11/10
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=50131
viewers also liked Die Ewigkeit Schmerzt
2008: Demo: Orb and Andromeda
graphical difficulty: 5/10
design: 9/10
graphically, i like this better. but Masagin is ever so much more polished, and very very very unique looking. so torn between the two :'(
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=51438
2009: Demo: ASD - Rupture
graphical difficulty: 4/10
design: 7/10
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=52931
viewers also liked The Evolution of Vision (semi NSFW) and Size Antimatters
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