Elevated by RGBA and TBC
In briefElevated is a 4 kilobyte PC demo by RGBA and TBC from Breakpoint 2009. It fly-throughs a realistic procedurally generated landscape with synthesized music and post-processing, all from a tiny executable.
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Creating a Doom-style 3D engine in C
In briefBisqwit builds a Doom or Duke Nukem 3D style software-rendered 3D engine in C from scratch, supporting non-Euclidean geometry. It covers vector rotation and portal rendering with sped-up, tool-assisted coding.
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RiftSketch: Live coding in VR with the Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript and Three.js
In briefBrian Peiris demonstrates RiftSketch, a web app where you write JavaScript with Three.js while wearing an Oculus Rift and watch the world around you change live. It runs on Firefox builds with WebVR.
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!!Con 2016 - How I Code and Use a Computer at 1,000 WPM!! By Sina Bahram
In briefA short !!Con 2016 talk by blind developer Sina Bahram on how he uses a computer and writes code with a screen reader at about 1,000 words per minute. He plays how common interfaces sound and challenges the audience to go a day using only the keyboard.
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Moleman 2 - Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms (2012)
In briefMoleman 2 is a feature-length documentary about the demoscene, tracing its rise from 1980s Commodore 64 culture to modern real-time art. It explains the algorithms and creative process behind demos and intros.
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A New Car UI: How touch screen controls in cars should work
In briefMatthaeus Krenn presents a concept for car touchscreen UI where the screen controls only one thing at a time, designed to suit driving. A tablet prototype accompanies the short demo.
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Notation Must Die: The Battle For How We Read Music
In briefTantacrul's 76-minute deep dive into the history of western music notation and the many proposed replacements, such as piano rolls, colored notes and the jubilate. He explains why none have displaced the current system.
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Alex Evans at Umbra Ignite 2015: Learning From Failure
In briefMedia Molecule's Alex Evans recounts the journey, including the failures, of finding the Dreams engine, based on his Siggraph 2015 talk. It covers the signed-distance-field and splat-based rendering approach and the artistic goals behind it.
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Captain Disillusion: World's Greatest Blenderer - Live at the Blender Conference 2018
In briefCaptain Disillusion's comedic talk at the 2018 Blender Conference recounts how he uses Blender as a production tool for his VFX-debunking web series. It is part case study and part love letter to the Blender community.
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The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse
In briefDan Olson of Folding Ideas spends months in the virtual world Decentraland and delivers a long critique of the metaverse, NFTs and DAOs, and why virtual worlds fail as places.
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Bret Victor - The Humane Representation of Thought
In briefBret Victor's closing keynote at UIST and SPLASH 2014 argues that our tools for thinking ignore most of human sensory and motor capability. He sketches representations that engage more modalities beyond screens and keyboards.
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FarewellEtaoinShrdlu
In briefA documentary on the last day the New York Times was printed with linotype machines in 1978, following the process from the newsroom to the press. It marks the move to computerized typesetting.
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Coding Adventure: Ant and Slime Simulations
In briefSebastian Lague explores an ant-inspired algorithm and simulates ant and slime mold behavior, using compute shaders. Source code for both simulations is available.
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The Inner Life of the Cell Animation
In briefAn award-winning 3D animation by XVIVO for Harvard's BioVisions showing the molecular machinery inside a cell as a white blood cell responds to a stimulus.
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Robust-first computing: Demon Horde Sort (full version)
In briefDave Ackley demonstrates the Demon Horde Sort, an inherently robust sorting machine running in his Movable Feast Machine simulator. This is the uncut version with all details and side thoughts.
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Mouse Cursor History (and why I made my own)
In briefPosy gives a short history of the computer mouse cursor, from early straight pointers to the tilted arrow, comparing Apple and Windows designs. He then explains why he designed his own cursor set and offers it as a free download.
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Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement
In briefAn Every Frame a Painting video essay on how Akira Kurosawa used movement, weather and composition to tell stories. It draws on clips and interviews with other filmmakers.
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K Lars Lohn - Keynote - PyCon 2016
In briefK Lars Lohn's PyCon 2016 keynote weaves together music theory, programming, biking road trips and fractals. It is a personal, wide-ranging talk rather than a Python how-to.
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Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo 1963
In briefA TV show about Ivan Sutherland's 1963 MIT thesis software Sketchpad, which ran on the TX-2 computer. It shows a light pen drawing, constraints, snapping, scaling and object-style graphics, foundations of GUIs and CAD.
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ORCA Sequencer Intro (Experimental Livecoding!)
In briefAllieway Audio gives an informal introduction and live-coding demo of ORCA, a free esoteric programming environment for building procedural sequencers from Hundred Rabbits. It walks through the interface and how to make music with it.
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World Building in Blender - Ian Hubert
In briefIan Hubert's Blender Conference talk on world building in Blender, covering photogrammetry, camera projection and assembling complex environments from simple shapes at great speed.
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How I Designed a Free Music Font for 5 Million Musicians (MuseScore 3.6)
In briefTantacrul explains how he and engraver Simon Smith designed the free music notation font for MuseScore 3.6. It draws on the history of the SCORE notation application by Leland Smith.
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Plain Text - Dylan Beattie - NDC Copenhagen 2022
In briefDylan Beattie's conference talk explores the history and mess behind plain text: encodings, Unicode, line endings and the many ways text goes wrong. It argues that the tidy idea of plain text hides a lot of complexity underneath everyday software.
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[JSConfUS 2013] Steven Wittens: Making WebGL Dance
In briefSteven Wittens' JSConf US 2013 talk on drawing with WebGL, using animated visuals to walk through vectors, matrices and the rendering pipeline. Despite the title, it works as a visual primer on the linear algebra behind 3D graphics.
