{"id":172,"date":"2012-02-21T13:25:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T13:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/light\/?p=172"},"modified":"2012-05-12T11:24:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T11:24:11","slug":"mesh-generation-in-farbrausch-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/light\/2012\/02\/21\/mesh-generation-in-farbrausch-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesh generation in Farbrausch demos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2007, the German demogroup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farbrausch.de\/\">Farbrausch<\/a> was releasing its masterpiece, <a href=\"http:\/\/pouet.net\/prod.php?which=30244\">fr-041 Debris<\/a>. Aside from the artistic qualities of this demo, it is impressive by its size: just 177kB worth of binary, for a seven minutes long full featured animation. The equivalent of a mere ten seconds of mp3 of poor quality. Size coding at work.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mxfmxi-boyo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Reaching such a result requires dedicated tools, compression of course, but more importantly, content generation. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rygorous\">Fabian Giesen<\/a> offered in a <a href=\"http:\/\/fgiesen.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/13\/debris-opening-the-box\/\">recent blog post<\/a> to give some details of the techniques used for this demo. After a quick poll, he decided to start with mesh generation, hence the first post of a very promising series: <a href=\"http:\/\/fgiesen.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/21\/half-edge-based-mesh-representations-theory\/\">Half-edge based mesh representations:\u00a0theory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fgiesen.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/21\/half-edge-based-mesh-representations-theory\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/fgiesen.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/half_edge1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representing a mesh with half-edges (picture stolen from the aforementioned article; diagrams that took this much time to create are worth showing ;) )<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2007, the German demogroup Farbrausch was releasing its masterpiece, fr-041 Debris. 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