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Farbrausch - fr-041: debris. [HD]

Name: Farbrausch - fr-041: debris. [HD]
Description: Debris by Farbrausch, the winner of the Breakpoint 2007 demo competition. All of its 3D visuals, textures and music come from a single 177 KB executable.

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4 HN users recommended this demo in 4 different months between 2010 and 2026.

2007–2026

4 recommendations 4 citations HackerTube score 4

HN recommends it as the demoscene showpiece to show someone what extreme size-limited real-time graphics look like.

Debris by Farbrausch, the winner of the Breakpoint 2007 demo competition. All of its 3D visuals, textures and music come from a single 177 KB executable.

Pull quote: “If you want to really show off the demoscene, try Farbrausch - fr-041.” (HN, 2013)

Also tagged: demoscene, farbrausch, procedural graphics, size coding, real-time 3d

What Hacker News said

8 labeled comments from the HN archive; up to 20 are kept per video, favoring different commenters. Each one links back to the original thread.

Recommends corysama May 2010 under The Demoscene -- an Overview

Demo packing audio and visuals into 200k.

Farbrausch's "debris." shows just how much you can pack into 200k (including the audio, btw). [this video] For the webby crowd: "Masagin" features animated, recursive SVGs with antialiasing and motion blur at high rez and high frame rate. [link] Or, you could download both demos from [link] and run them on your own PC.

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Recommends guiambros March 2013 under Simple Minecraft Clone in 580 lines of Python

Impressive demo squeezing huge content into 179KB.

If you want to really show off the demoscene, try Farbrausch - fr-041. It's comparatively very big (179KB), but impressive how they were able to squeeze so much stuff there: video [this video] , official repository: [link] . If you want to dig deeper, Farbrausch published most of their material and tools last year including the source code for fr-041. Search for farbrausch on GitHub. But I must say, it's pretty hardcore.

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Recommends clay_to_n March 2015 under F***ing Learn to Code Again (1999)

First demo seen; impressive in a 177kB executable.

Farbrausch made the first demo I ever saw, a 2007 one called debris (fr-041): [this video] Super cool, and in an executable of 177kB.

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Recommends sclangdon June 2016 under Source code for 4kb demoscene production “Elevated” released

Farbrausch demo worth checking out for the uninitiated.

Although they generally didn't compete in the 4kb genre, Farbrausch open-sourced many of their demos and demo-making tools a few years ago [1]. fr-041: Debris [2], and kkrieger [3] (the 96kb FPS) are particularly worth checking out for the uninitiated. [1] [link] [2] [this video] [3] [link]

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Citations, criticism and jokes

Cites it gurkendoktor April 2012 under Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms

I always tought that the tiny hint of a narrative was why I've seen Debris[1] reach much more nerds than other demos, not its spectacularly small file size. [1] [this video]

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Cites it errantspark August 2014 under A Single Div

Ok fair point I shouldn't have been so glib as puet is pretty horrible from a web design standpoint. It's a website for the demoscene, where people do stuff like this [this video] in 177 kilobytes.

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Cites it abstractbeliefs July 2017 under Fr-087: Snake Charmer PC Demo

Example of Farbrausch doing more in 177KB.

It's a cute little demo that's only basically 1MB all in. That said, I don't think it's the best for this group - they've done more in far less before. [this video] for example, is an executable only 177KB big.

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Cites it future_crew_fan March 2026 under We Built a Video Rendering Engine by Lying to the Browser About What Time It Is

Breakpoint 2007 demo in a 177 Kb executable.

> "one guy" sir, that's no way to refer to farbrausch here is their Breakpoint 2007 demo, a 177 Kb executable including 3d assets and textures. [this video]

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