Epsilon, a 64k intro by Mercury

Last weekend the demogroup Mercury released at Tokyo Demo Fest the final version of their invitation to the upcoming Revision party: a 64kB demo called Epsilon. While the complexity of the scenes is very limited, the rendering, seemingly a raymarching shader, features a couple of very noteworthy real-time effects including ambient occlusion, reflexion (up to two iterations it seems) and refraction, caustics, and an hexagonal bokeh depth of field.

Yet another GLSL live editor

I mentioned already the current trend of writing live coding tools. During the Tokyo Demo Fest, which was taking place last weekend in Akihabara, Hole performed a live coding with his own tool, thus VJ-ing while the DJ was on stage. Interestingly, this led to collaborative coding when someone joined him. This could be a very interesting direction to explore.

The tool, LiveCoder, looks pretty clean on big screen and may be worth trying out.