THE VIDEO SHELF · demoscene
Farbrausch - fr-041: debris. [HD]
Debris by Farbrausch, the winner of the Breakpoint 2007 demo competition. All of its 3D visuals, textures and music come from a single 177 KB executable.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as the demoscene showpiece to show someone what extreme size-limited real-time graphics look like.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- kb
- Topic
- demoscene
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 8
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2010–2026
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). [VIDEO] For the webby crowd: "Masagin" features animated, recursive SVGs with antialiasing and motion blur at high rez and high frame rate. [LINK] Or, you could download both demos from …
corysama on Hacker News · 2010-05
In The Demoscene -- an OverviewIf you want to really show off the demoscene, try Farbrausch - fr-041. It's comparatively very big (179KB), but impressive how they were able to squeeze so much stuff there: video [VIDEO] , official repository: [LINK] . If you want to dig deeper, Farbrausch published …
guiambros on Hacker News · 2013-03
In Simple Minecraft Clone in 580 lines of PythonFarbrausch made the first demo I ever saw, a 2007 one called debris (fr-041): [VIDEO] Super cool, and in an executable of 177kB.
clay_to_n on Hacker News · 2015-03
In F***ing Learn to Code Again (1999)
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