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• personal:
• first name: Simon
• last name: Kissel

• demo invitation Windows sp04 - Airplane? by Spacepigs [web] & vacuum [web]
• Azzaro: Under what definition of "wild compo" would that be the case...? The most common definition, and the one used at Revision, is about the hardware platform. And "PC with AMD or NVidia graphics" is not really very wild.
• isokadded on the 2019-04-23 17:16:24
• demo invitation Windows sp04 - Airplane? by Spacepigs [web] & vacuum [web]
• I don't see what's wrong for a demo to be an invitation. I've seen lots of invitations that have entertained me.
  
  It's obvious why everybody wants their party invitation to be shown at Revision: Addressable market size.
  
  This is only a problem if invitations mostly consist of "party features" slides, especially if it's redundant information like "we have chairs to sit on, and demos". A good invitation demo should be able to stand on its own when it comes to content.
  
  In this case the main story line of the demo was settled on being a parody on an invitation demo while at the same time being a non-invitation to an invitation-only party.
  
  On a different meta layer, one could argue that there is no clear definition on what counts more on a demo - the visual quality? having written your own impressive 3d engine instead of using someone else's? the entertainment value? how good the storytelling was? Cocoon's release blew me away sitting in front of the big screen, and I would have not had any hard feelings if it had won. But is it better? Hard to say, they are great in very different kind of ways.
• isokadded on the 2019-04-23 13:42:12
• demo Windows Aurora 05 by Cocoon [web]
• Kicked some serious ass sitting in the front rows.
• rulezadded on the 2019-04-22 19:50:11
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS Gummy Bear: The Demo by void
• I actually enjoyed this a lot, and the kids sitting close to me actually did like it.
• rulezadded on the 2019-04-22 19:49:04
• invitation Wild LED the sun shine in your heart by vacuum [web]
• Some background info on the platform:
  
  - It's 96 RGBW (32 Bit) LED stripes, 5 meters and 150 pixels each, so that's roughly half a kilometer of LED stripes
  
  - They are controlled by an Altera FPGA running on a custom-designed PCB, driving the LEDs with up to 200 Hz refresh rate doing 800 Mhz pulse coding
  
  - The FPGA is communicating with a ARMv7 host CPU via USB. That CPU is running the effect code, sending frame data as USB packets to the FPGA
  
  - All of this housed inside a Viprinet Multichannel VPN Router 520
  
  - LED stripes are powered with up to 30A @5A, which required 6mm² cables so not to burn
  
  - To generate this we convert down 24V DC to 5V using 48 DC-DC converters. The 24V are provided by 8 600W AC-DC converters
  
  - The total maximum output power (all LEDs at RGBW full brightness) is 4.8 Kilowatts
  
  - Every LED stripes has power feeds from both sides, and data feed from one side, making it a total of over 800 cables we had to solder
  
  - The total display size is 10x3,5 Meters at 300x48 pixels
  
  - Once we had finished the platform in Bingen, it no longer did fit through the door, and we had no means to get it to Saarbrücken. We had to rent a truck last-minute
  
  - The actual demo running on it was a last-minute party prod (as the platform wasn't finished before thursday to test on), which for the first time fully worked 10 minutes before the compo started. It's been programmed in Object Pascal. Wayfinder, the music composer, in his track could control the white LEDs directly to trigger strobo effects himself.
  
  - We could not get the Mali "GPU" integrated into the ARM CPU to work on such a short notice, which is why everything had to be software rendering, and was only running at 30FPS. Bero is planning to support hw OpenGL in the future.
  
  - The platform is meant to be used as a decoration element at partys. It typically will not be installed flat as it was used at Revision - it's a "foldable display". It will be used as a 10m deadly toilet tunnel to walk through, including fog, audio feedback, trying to make it next to impossible for visitors to reach the toilets at Underground Conference.
• isokadded on the 2019-04-22 19:40:35
• demo invitation Windows sp04 - Evoke 2018 Invitation by Spacepigs [web]
• So deep.
• rulezadded on the 2017-12-30 15:17:47
• demo invitation Windows Deep in the Underground by vacuum [web]
• Thank you very much for the positive feedback. For me personally this has been the first demo in 10+ years I have been part of, and my previous ones (with the exception of that one Breakpoint invitation I had some part in) weren't exactly great.
  
  Some of the gags didn't fully work, and the timing of the story wasn't right and a little quick.
  
  Did people actually understand the copper bar joke? Chaos didn't, and he's pretty oldschool.
  
  There will be more stuff coming from Vacuum in the future.
• isokadded on the 2017-04-19 00:08:20
• demo Windows sp04 - Hello, Kevin - A Dental Journey by Spacepigs [web]
• I just love it.
• rulezadded on the 2017-04-17 13:41:45
• intro Windows tAAt 2013 by tAAt [web]
• So I'm 2 days late, but I still love it.
• rulezadded on the 2013-01-03 02:35:23
• demo invitation Windows My Buenzli - The Demodays 2011 Invitation
• Earworm. Must. Die.
• rulezadded on the 2011-08-15 02:09:46