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title: I can never win that context back
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date: June 10, 2011
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author: Chris Hodapp
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tags: Journal, rant
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I stumbled upon this:
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[http://www.soyoucode.com/2011/coding-giant-under-microscope-farbrausch](http://www.soyoucode.com/2011/coding-giant-under-microscope-farbrausch)
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. . . and promptly fell in love with the demos there from Farbrausch:
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[.the .product](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ydAHt78v2M)
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[.debris](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBNZ9JiFCKU)
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[.kkrieger](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aV1kzS5FtA)
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[Magellan](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00SdDZyWSEs)
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That melding of music and animated 3D graphics grabs a hold of me like
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nothing else. I don't really know why.
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The fact that it's done in such a small space (e.g. 64 KB for the
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first one) makes it more impressive, of course. Maybe that should be a
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sad reflection on just how formulaic the things I like are, if they're
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encoded that small (although, that ignores just how much is present in
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addition, in the CPU and the GPU and the OS and the drivers and in the
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design of the computer), but I don't much care - formulas encode
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patterns of sorts, and we're pattern-matching machines.
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But leaving aside the huge programming feat of making all this fit in
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such a small space, I still find it really impressive.
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It's been a goal for awhile to make something that is on the scope of
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that (highly-compressed demo or not, I don't much care). I've just not
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made much progress to accomplishing that. My early attempts at Acidity
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were motivated by the same feelings that draw me to things like this.
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(Obligatory
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[Second Reality](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_aUxbbqWU) as
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well. Maybe I am putting myself too much in the context that it came
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from - i.e. 1993 and rather slow DOS machines - but I still think it's
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damn impressive. Incidentally, this is also one of the only ones I've
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run on real hardware before, since apparently the only fast machine I
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have that runs Windows is my work computer.)
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