Damn. I feel kinda physically unstable watching this. Mesmerizing indeed
marky1991 331 days ago [-]
Question to whoever knows anything about this kind of stuff: Are loading times of these ever likely to get (meaningfully) better? The demos are all interesting, but having to wait forever (10-20s) before they load is excruciating. I would be afraid to know what the loading time of a non-demo kind of game would be.
stephenhumphrey 331 days ago [-]
Unknown, but for anyone under-resourced, this experiment from the site loaded instantly for me:
This one also loaded basically instantly for me as well, but for example this one: https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/clouded_cracker_2/cloude... took ~15 seconds to load and then runs at 9 fps on a pretty powerful dev machine. (granted, it is running a bit slow and I'm also running a vm at the same time, so maybe that's the cause)
marky1991 331 days ago [-]
Ok, it turns out it's all my fault: fps was terrible due to the vm I was running simultaneously, it oes to 60 fps with vm turned off; and the loading time was because I was downloading it through my company's vpn.
qingcharles 331 days ago [-]
LOL. Yeah, it loads in about a second on my PC which is five generations old and has a $200 GPU, so you definitely shouldn't have been struggling :)
nickthegreek 331 days ago [-]
That might be local hardware related? These are loading up in under 3s for me.
Joel_Mckay 331 days ago [-]
I would recommend checking a reasonable game engine load time:
The engine examples also have fluid like surface displacement animations in shader tricks.
Fun stuff for sure, but would never let it in production for a few reasons =3
pseudocomposer 330 days ago [-]
None take more than 5s (most 2-3s) on my iPhone 16 Pro on a 400Gbps fiber connection.
girvo 331 days ago [-]
They loaded instantly for me, but I'm on Firefox with a 5600X + RTX 4070 with a 1GB/s down internet connection
siavosh 331 days ago [-]
Like a fever dream.
noduerme 331 days ago [-]
These are great experiments! Really a nice mix of art and engineering at play. It looks like they go all the way back to MM Shockwave days, and some from the early 2000s have been rewritten for canvas. I just spent an hour lost in this museum!
imp0cat 330 days ago [-]
Yes, the entire website feels like a blast from the past, but modernized. It even includes a webring!
Can anyone explain what that is that I am looking at?
bradleyy 330 days ago [-]
I very much appreciate that there are people in the world committed to their craft/art like this. Even if I only spend a couple minutes looking, it brought joy.
closewith 330 days ago [-]
Yeah, not sure how to articulate the feelings this invokes. A mixture of awe, joy, and bittersweet nostalgia.
Lammy 331 days ago [-]
It reminds me of the “Ducks” PLAYSTATION3 demo from E3 2005 a.k.a. Super Rub-a-Dub:
I'm reminded of old Kai's PowerTools Goo, only animated.
amy214 330 days ago [-]
the page on the whole reminds me of 1990s and 2000s vintage NVIDIA demos they used to highlight their cool graphics tech
slowhadoken 331 days ago [-]
Is this a reference to the Liquid Television short?
zabzonk 330 days ago [-]
Factoid: Honey Bunnies feature in the Thomas M. Disch SF-ish novel "On Wings Of Song".
chmod775 330 days ago [-]
Impressive performance. Even runs at 60fps on a potato thinkpad.
miffe 331 days ago [-]
Wish it had a fps limiter so I could see what's going on.
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wrboyce 331 days ago [-]
This is great; inspired by Pulp Fiction I call my fiancée “Bee” (over the years: Honey Bunny -> HB -> Bee).
czk 331 days ago [-]
Can't help but comment that the song Honey Bee by Tom Petty is an absolute banger as well.
dylan604 331 days ago [-]
This might be the first time I've heard Tom Petty and banger in the same sentence. People tending to use banger this way tend to not be Tom Petty fans. Nothing wrong with crossing over, but it was a shock to the system.
qingcharles 331 days ago [-]
My first thought wasn't so classy, it was this banger from Billie Piper:
She was just barely 16 in 1998 when that was released, if you can believe that. Turns out we were born the same week!
qingcharles 330 days ago [-]
She was one of those you totally expected to disappear after a month. Glad she managed to pull through and have a decent career.
wrboyce 331 days ago [-]
Never heard it before, but just listened to it and we both enjoyed: so thanks! (Also, what a killjoy whoever downvoted my above comment is!)
RankingMember 330 days ago [-]
Isn't it funny how pet names evolve like that? My household has numerous that require multiple steps to get to their origin if you want to explain them to someone unfamiliar.
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jvdvegt 330 days ago [-]
It's a GPU-heavy demo site. My Firefox on Linux handles it fine.
BizarroLand 330 days ago [-]
Mine on Windows does as well, but librewolf shows a grey screen and never starts the display.
Rendered at 11:03:48 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
https://mameson.com/
https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/ferro_9/ferro_9.html
https://www.babylonjs.com/games/
The engine examples also have fluid like surface displacement animations in shader tricks.
Fun stuff for sure, but would never let it in production for a few reasons =3
And the owner/author is a fan of Otamatone (https://www.thomann.de/uk/otamatone.html ) , that's great!
https://archive.org/details/ps3duckdemo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Rub_%27a%27_Dub
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtT4MWzohRY