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puls (256 bytes)

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Demoscene & retrocomputingComputer graphics & rendering

What it is

A 256-byte MS-DOS intro that renders a raymarched, procedural 3D animation. It won the 256-byte competition at Riverwash 2009 and the scene.org award for best technical achievement that year, and the author published commented x86 assembly source.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters cite it as the most impressive 256-byte production and as an example of how much graphics code can fit in a tiny binary.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2011, last 2014

What HN commenters said

  1. “The most impressive to date is probably Puls”

    Most impressive 256-byte production to date.

    psykotic, 2011-08 · Recommendation · in “Low-level x86 code compression for 64k intros”

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Topics: demoscene, 256 bytes, raymarching, x86 assembly, ms-dos

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