THE VIDEO SHELF · demoscene
Farbrausch & Neuro - Masagin (HD Stereo)
Masagin is a realtime demoscene production by Farbrausch and Neuro with music by paniq, using animated recursive SVG graphics made in Inkscape. It is a psychedelic, nested-dials audiovisual piece.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a showcase of what the demoscene can do, with high-res antialiased vector graphics and motion blur.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Leonard Ritter
- Topic
- demoscene
- Format
- music
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2010–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Farbrausch's "debris." shows just how much you can pack into 200k (including the audio, btw). [LINK] For the webby crowd: "Masagin" features animated, recursive SVGs with antialiasing and motion blur at high rez and high frame rate. [VIDEO] Or, you could download both demos from …
corysama on Hacker News · 2010-05
In The Demoscene -- an OverviewThe one for NVScene 2008 kicked ass. It's about as close as you can get to color intoxication (which is the rough translation of "farbrausch"). [VIDEO]
theandrewbailey on Hacker News · 2014-07
In Interview with Demoscener “kb” of FarbrauschLeonard Ritter is a very talented guy. Looking forward to NOWHERE. He's known as paniq in the demoscene and did the music, 2d engine and graphics for the awesome Masagin: [VIDEO]
hansjorg on Hacker News · 2015-01
In Conspire: A Programming Environment for NOWHERE
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.


