Farbrausch - fr-041: debris. [HD]

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debris. (fr-041) is a demoscene production by the group Farbrausch, shown at Breakpoint 2007, a real-time audiovisual piece packed into an executable of about 177 kilobytes. It includes 3D assets, textures and music, and has a small thread of narrative.

HN people recommend it as the best way to show off the demoscene, because of how much it fits into 177 KB and the hint of story that reaches non-demoscene viewers.

“If you want to really show off the demoscene, try Farbrausch - fr-041.”
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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] ▶ this video [3] link
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@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): ▶ this video Super cool, and in an executable of 177kB.
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@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 ▶ this 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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@corysama2010 · in “The Demoscene -- an Overview”
Farbrausch's "debris." shows just how much you can pack into 200k (including the audio, btw). ▶ this 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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@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. ▶ this video
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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. ▶ this video for example, is an executable only 177KB big.
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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 ▶ this video in 177 kilobytes.
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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] ▶ this video
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