.kkrieger is great. But before that, there was this:
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Back in '97, Sanction made this demo, showing a recreation of the first level of Descent in only 4K! It's even got music!
http://www.sanction.de/
Silver wrote:
You know, you may all think I'm retarded, but seriously: if somebody discovers a totally new way of compressing data that no one knows about, of course you think "impossible, retarded". Because if you didn't, you'd be the one working on that code.
Acrylamid wrote:
About this whole compression issue... there's an idea I had a while ago, that could shrink every movie down to less than a kb
Dsal wrote:
Yep. But I suppose it's possible, although unlikely, that for any given block of data, there is a procedural algorithm that could precisely generate it. Maybe if someone was able to construct a huge database of mappings of all possible block values (heh...) to a generating procedural algorithm it could work. Then they'd just look up the block in the database and only output the procedural algorithm parameters to the file. You could then take the output and repeat the process until there was no further compression realized.
Acrylamid wrote:
About this whole compression issue... there's an idea I had a while ago, that could shrink every movie down to less than a kb, the only problem is, you'd need really fast computers (or a lot of time) to "decompress" them.
In the file sharing program eMule, each file (<4 GB) gets its unique 128-bit MD4 hash. Wouldn't this mean that when you know the MD4 hash of a certain version of a movie, your PC could create a file starting with 00000...01, hash it, check the newly generated hash with the wanted hash and if the hashes didn't match, create the next file (00000...11). After a long time, your computer would have created the right file, the hashes would match and you would have the movie without having to download it, in a way all the information was contained in the MD4 hash...
http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/MD4_hash
Would this be possible with very fast computers and a lot of patience or where is my mistake?
Acrylamid wrote:
About this whole compression issue... there's an idea I had a while ago, that could shrink every movie down to less than a kb, the only problem is, you'd need really fast computers (or a lot of time) to "decompress" them.
In the file sharing program eMule, each file (<4 GB) gets its unique 128-bit MD4 hash. Wouldn't this mean that when you know the MD4 hash of a certain version of a movie, your PC could create a file starting with 00000...01, hash it, check the newly generated hash with the wanted hash and if the hashes didn't match, create the next file (00000...11). After a long time, your computer would have created the right file, the hashes would match and you would have the movie without having to download it, in a way all the information was contained in the MD4 hash...
http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/MD4_hash
Would this be possible with very fast computers and a lot of patience or where is my mistake?
Gofreak wrote:
This is the best part of this thread. Most impressive. 96KB!!
(I kinda got "stuck" midway through, controls are clunky etc. but..wow)
I wonder if Will Wright hired these guys? I wonder how readable their code is?
Iapetus wrote:
Here are some movies for you to download:
Spiderman 2: 0
Constantine: 1
Battlefield Earth: 1
Star Wars Episode 2: 1
Robots: 0
Enjoy.
Border wrote:
What truly amazes me is that a man as Roel Pieper, who is a professor of Computer Science no less, could fall for his story, to the point where he invested a huge amount of capital. If his role in this story is really as reported in the media, his credibility as a computer scientist has been seriously tarnished. In my opinion, the University of Twente, with which Pieper is associated, should at least perform an internal investigation, to assess whether Pieper's position can be maintained.