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The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden

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632 points robin_reala | 4 comments | 31 Mar 25 10:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.668s | source
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larodi ◴[31 Mar 25 14:19 UTC] No.43535357[source]▶
Would you agree the demoscene is slowly turning into generative-art-NFT-scene. I mean, lot of new effects get released a gif or genart snippets, and some are actually really good. Also #genaury been a think for several years now.

Not sure how this relates to the heritage status of older productions though.

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1. trollbridge ◴[31 Mar 25 14:23 UTC] No.43535416[source]▶
Don’t see how NFTs are relevant.

ML/LLM/AI/generative transformer generated art is at home in the demo scene. The demoscene has always embraced new ways to create art, and then find a way to pack it inside a 32kB cracktro or BBS insert in a zip file. I wonder what could be done wi the Fabrice Bellard’s very low bitrate audio compression, for example…

Some of the imagination is “What could have been?” What demos could have existed in 1981 on contemporary hardware? It is a pathway into imagining other worlds.

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3. larodi ◴[01 Apr 25 07:28 UTC] No.43543846[source]▶
Fabrice Belliard, among other things, implements neural networks for fun and compression.

I don’t think though he ever struggled to fit 32k or to do art, so dunno how this relates.

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4. trollbridge ◴[02 Apr 25 01:15 UTC] No.43552862[source]▶
Well, demos tend to also be about fun and compression.