Thanks my friends at @FieldFX for adopting the demoparty timezone switcher code! ❤️
Field-FXmas starts at 7pm GMT.
It's a fully remote event, with demo showcases, #lovebyteTCC recap and #liveCoding #TIC80 #ByteJam with DJ @gsuberland 🥳
Join us from wherever you are in the world. Schedule here:
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See you there!
(If you're orga/support for a #demoparty, there's a link to the timezoner script at the top of this thread 👆)
#demoscene
Here you go! Enjoy a lazy retro-CRT-effect version…
(probably only works if you view the video larger than a thumbnail on a high res display)
Tried something different for Tiny Code Christmas today: an attempt at doing the most literal translation of the “Rasterbars" problem that I can do into Flitter. I was interested in seeing how close I could get to the TIC-80 demo and the starting code.
The core drawing function is surprisingly close to the Lua original, despite Flitter being a completely different paradigm:
https://github.com/jonathanhogg/flitter-examples/blob/main/lovebytetcc2024/day06x_rasterbars.fl
"Tiny Code Christmas" day 4 with #pico8: animated plasma effect in 54 tokens.
OK, decided to do the TCC day 2 extra challenge “meta-balls” after all!
As expected, the rendering is a custom shader, but fed from a Flitter 2D particle system modelling gravity and reflections off walls. I experimented with different output equations looking for the most interesting thing I could do in the remaining characters. I enjoy the starkness of the black bands here.
Code comes in at a neat 400 bytes:
https://github.com/jonathanhogg/flitter-examples/blob/main/lovebytetcc2024/day02x_metaballs.fl
Day 3 - A graphical pattern #lovebytetcc
(Bad gif quality, as I couldn't find a good way of capturing it.)
I am kind of trying to convince myself that finding new ways of doing things and improving Flitter makes these exercises a useful way to spend my time… 🤣
Revisited the fire from yesterday rather than do today's “metaballs" challenge.
I realised that I could use Flitter's vector maths to calculate a single column at a time. I had to add a new collating mean function, but that’s a generally useful thing. I also leant into it being my own language to add some new convenience syntax for nested loops.
The result is both smaller and much faster! I can render a 27,000 element grid at 60fps.
James
Jonathan Hogg
CIOSAI
Florian Pigorsch
LP