Farbrausch - fr-041: debris. [HD]

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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.

HN recommends it as the demoscene showpiece to show someone what extreme size-limited real-time graphics look like.

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@corysama2010 · in “The Demoscene -- an Overview”

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 [LINK] and run them on your own PC.

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@gurkendoktor2012 · in “Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms”

I always tought that the tiny hint of a narrative was why I've seen Debris[1] reach much more nerds than other demos, not its spectacularly small file size. [1] [VIDEO]

@guiambros2013 · in “Simple Minecraft Clone in 580 lines of Python”

If 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 most of their material and tools last year including the source code for fr-041. Search for farbrausch on GitHub. But I must say, it's pretty hardcore.

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@errantspark2014 · in “A Single Div”

Ok fair point I shouldn't have been so glib as puet is pretty horrible from a web design standpoint. It's a website for the demoscene, where people do stuff like this [VIDEO] in 177 kilobytes.

@clay_to_n2015 · in “F***ing Learn to Code Again (1999)”

Farbrausch made the first demo I ever saw, a 2007 one called debris (fr-041): [VIDEO] Super cool, and in an executable of 177kB.

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@sclangdon2016 · in “Source code for 4kb demoscene production “Elevated” released”

Although they generally didn't compete in the 4kb genre, Farbrausch open-sourced many of their demos and demo-making tools a few years ago [1]. fr-041: Debris [2], and kkrieger [3] (the 96kb FPS) are particularly worth checking out for the uninitiated. [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO] [3] [LINK]

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@abstractbeliefs2017 · in “Fr-087: Snake Charmer PC Demo”

It's a cute little demo that's only basically 1MB all in. That said, I don't think it's the best for this group - they've done more in far less before. [VIDEO] for example, is an executable only 177KB big.

@future_crew_fan2026 · in “We Built a Video Rendering Engine by Lying to the Browser About What Time It Is”

> "one guy" sir, that's no way to refer to farbrausch here is their Breakpoint 2007 demo, a 177 Kb executable including 3d assets and textures. [VIDEO]