Author of "wake up" here. Yes, that one reactivated me again. We thought (as size coding community) that we found every cellular automaton trick years ago, but then Plex came around and showed us otherwise ♥
I'm really impressed. Those are the things that made me love programming and computing. It's all so beautiful, it's TRULY art. It's a shame that in the industry we don't usually have the opportunities to make something like that, with AIs and all that...
There are only 2^128 of such demos. How much of those are valid DOS programs? If we narrow it down to ones that generate both video and sound, I guess there are much less, which should motivate more people to try and find one :)
16 bytes equals immediate “black magic” and “it’s a witch”. I get it in the abstract - generative art and CAs and fractals have infinite depth. But this is madness. I love it so much
https://youtu.be/b-Fa6HtvGtQ?si=LpQszgA9_K-m3V3-
That other demo didn't even have sound.
This is hell of a good work. A masterpiece to retire after. (or more realistically, chase it on other architectures)
https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=106205
Related to the Dragon Fractal, with a twist:)