pouët.net

....just in the spirit of outreach and all?:

http://functionspace.org/


I myself have NOT signed up there, and I don't know the 1st thing about it, I just read of it in the paper over here, so, thought maybe the scene could get a few new recruits. Viewership is mainly American, or so I think.

What merkur said

Who's under that desk? What is he doing?

DisplayHack.

Probably they already know that "we" exist. Ordinary people aren't as stupid as you think.

Not a question of intelligence , just the *knowledge*. I mean, if you didn't know about the scene, how would you find it? If you Googled for "computer graphics", you'd probably get CGTalk and the like, and "computer graphics programming" gets unrelated stuff.

Has the no. of people been going up in recent times? Down? Stagnant? Do you know?

Btw, when's the next Hugi coming out? :) If there were enough people in the scene willing to read as well as contribute, surely you must be bringing out more of them? :) Like it was in Hugi's heyday? :)

if you are interested in the scene, then you will find it. natural selection works there.

Out of all the communities we could consider reaching out to (art, theatre, game dev, electronic music, hackerspace...) I suspect that the science community is one of the least likely to be interested in what we do, along with the open-source community. Their first question is going to be "so what useful purpose does it serve?" - and very little of what goes on in the demoscene is useful, or furthers human knowledge in any meaningful way. (Maybe demos could be used as an educational tool for teaching graphics algorithms or something. I can't really see many demosceners rushing to become educators, though.)

I guess you mean natural sciences? The demoscene is more interesting for the sort of sciences that study humanistic stuff and art. The really good stuff. It's precisely about the "purpose" in your question "what useful purpose does it serve".

the digital aesthetics people here are really really interested in what we do - which makes a lot more sense.

Or maybe if you take away the word "useful". Just purpose.

What Saga Musix said.
Maybe people with at least 100 Glöps should be allowed to post to the BBS.

But then again, there have been quite a few notable side effects (fasttracker, demopaja, werkkzeug, shader tools, specialized IDEs), and articles on the web and in diskmags, also the odd tech talk here and there that have fertilized creativity and self-expression in all sorts of places to a great extend.


The same way you find all the other stuff: Blogs, social media, reddit, youtube. People talk (and reference) a lot, online and offline. :) The latest blockbuster 64k has already 300k+ views. That's a lot of eyeballs, even if 99% of them will not go further than watching that video.

And yes, what Saga Musix said, too :) Even Barti finally managed to get banned. So, don't overdo it.

Lsl: that would atleast keep ringo out

How do you find the scene? Via CRACK INTROS of course!

If pouet usage becomes restricted as suggested by Saga Musix, Hugi will see to it that a free-to-use forum for demoscene purposes gets installed.

Um, I don't think Saga_Musix said anything like this.

Good luck with that.

obTopic. I hereby grant those chaps permission to know I exist.

That might be true regarding the open source people, but regarding natural scientists it is just what non-scientists believe they do.

Most scientists I know happily try things out without caring if it is useful or not (it just has to be useful enough so that you keep your studies financiated) and like to discover new fancy stuff - the more strange the better. Thus scientist fit pretty well into the scene, at least from the inofficial side, not the official one.
No wonder most scientists in the scene are related to physics :)

Physics is science for playful minds. (Not meant in a derogatory way.)

Used to be every two weeks, then I gave up. Let's try again, see how long it takes.

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