Farbrausch - fr-041: debris. [HD]

"Debris." by Farbrausch, winner of the demo competition at Breakpoint 2007 in Bingen, Germany.

Concept and visuals by fiver2, soundtrack by rp, created using .werkkzeug3 by chaos, fiver2, gizmo and ryg, as well as the V2 synthesizer system by kb

The secret behind all this is procedural content generation. in a nutshell, instead of storing a movie as-is we're storing a certain number of mathematical formulas for image and audio manipulation as well as the "recipe" how to apply those small bits of code in a way that what you see comes out. And while it's running your computer's graphics card cares for the actual displaying ot the world, just like in modern 3D games. Formulas+recipe are of course way smaller than the end result, and with a few additional sprinkles of magic compression fairy dust we get down to under 200 kilobytes, which is way less than one single high quality image of this show would take.

This of course means, no, we don't have any magic technology that can compress videos down to that size, but the video has to be authored in the way described above. Manually. With, like, lots of work involved. Making this gem took us all more than two years of hobby part time work _after_ we had five years of experience with this kind of technology.

[greymagick]

This is the inverse of a magic trick: knowing how it's done makes it *way more* impressive.

[mikosoft]

Here I am, 8 years later watching this and still my jaw is on the floor.

[BlackStarEOP]

It was an absolute privilege to see this thing live on the bigscreen at BP07, well deserved winner.

[NeilRoy]

Almost 12 years later, and still loving it.

[strogg]

This is just the best demo ever. The pacing is amazing, the concept is damn cool, the music kicks ass.

[johnsimon]

I love the handheld camera zooming and wobbling effects - like someone is recording a Kaiju attack during their train ride home.
ARE YOUUUU SEEING THIS

[NeilRoy]

Computer art at it's finest.  Two kinds of art really, both visual and coding.  Well done.

[zarrokus]

Ok. 10 years later. it's favorite still.

[OmegaPoint]

This demo gives me goosebumps EVERY TIME.

[andrewk]

That music is just beautiful...distortion rust and melody. Beautiful.

[kb]

Actually, the point is to look effin' amazing. Seems we've achieved that :)

[reikooters]

this one is one you really gotta download and watch. youtube doesn't do it any justice on how nice it really is.

[nolram]

This blows my mind to this day. I have no clue why the „texture generation“ technology approach has fallen so far out of popularity. I also have no clue how the fractures and simulation of the destruction was done.
All I can say is...
Fantastische Arbeit.

[jimtoxic-tv]

Thanks for sharing some basic informations on how things like this can be done. It's so freaking impressive.

[nobrayn]

Can't believe I missed this when it was released! And the file size! Amazing! I was so into the demo scene. I'd hop from one BBS to another looking for demos. Brings me back.

[blackhossproductions]

Ive long thought this is the most stunning realtime graphics achievement ever made.

[screamengine]

Just im-fucking-possible. :) Love Farbrausch's stuff.
200K or less. Just fucking insanely well done. I'm pretty sure that if the universe is a simulation, you guys have coded it and it's probably running just fine on a cosmic Vic 20.

[Nopefish]

i watched this demo five years ago, and it got me very excited. I still feel myself excited now. This demo is never getting old! Made by Gods!
Я посмотрел эту демку 5 лет назад и был в дичайшем восторге. Посмотрел её сейчас и восторг никуда не делся) Это демо не стареет, оно сделано богами демосцены! Эти летающие мосты, осыпающиеся кирпичики, поезд, трубы, которые куда-то тянутся и переплетаются... Это волшебно. И всего 177 Кб.

[EmporioZuagroast]

read the info:

"Making this gem took us all more than two years of hobby part time work _after_ we had five years of experience with this kind of technology."

[svtcontour]

I've tried this demo on my box and I'm just amazed by it - its left me speechless as were some of their other demos. These guys are gods! :)