Mastodawn

So I took @warrenm's MetalSlug (https://github.com/metal-by-example/MetalSlug) - itself an implementation of the https://sluglibrary.com paper…

Ported it to https://metalsprockets.com…

Optimised it so it renders all text in a single draw call (from an original 40,000 draw calls…)

And then entered the matrix?

Every glyph is vector. Whoa.

(Code needs a cleanup - it got messy but will put it online soon)

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ティージェーグレェ

Pretty!

Kinda hating the name collision with the Neo Geo franchise of Metal Slug, but whatever.

Admittedly, for me and Matrix-related visualizations? I probably had the most fun with @[email protected]'s matrixdump (took tcpdump output and shuffled it vertically) but I dunno where that code is anymore. Looks as if his https://monkey.org/~jose/ page is long since deprecated. I used to have that running on a system underneath my desk at a past employer on a tiny 12 or 13" CRT. Some coworkers thought it was a screen saver, but it was actual network traffic. You really did start to see patterns in it after a while too. ^_^

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