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  • Demo-sce-nes (dai-moh-ske-nes), the famous geek philosopher...
    by froh
  • "I stole some art" great good for you i'm sure that took a lot of effort
    by 12_throw_away
  • congratulations on rediscovering genetic algorithms in procedurally generated art. why learn the math and size coding optimizations that make the effects possible when you can just throw tokens at it and spend time filtering the garbage for the machine? what a time to be alive!
    by psenough
  • All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned.
    by vconnor
  • Misread this as Demosthenes at first.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demosthenes

    Would be fun to see models trained on ancient figures that you could interact and chat with.

    Less fun to see models imitating human art, they’re not ready for that yet IMP because they’re too derivative and not creative in interesting ways in the way that humans are.

    by grey-area
  • Demoscenes are a uniquely human endeavour.
    by xacky
  • I think you misunderstand the point of the demoscene. It’s about mathematical prowess and the joy of puzzle-solving moreso than pretty pictures.

    Appropriate uses for AI could be to trace the history of demoscene effects, or to explain how a particular scene works so you can understand it better. Nobody in the scene wants a magic box that solves the puzzle for them.

    by InvisibleUp
  • The human side of the demo scene is what I think makes it appealing. Sharing and consuming. A fellow human did that! Coder-as-problem-solver-and-artist.

    For sure it’s intellectually interesting if AI can generate something novel within demoscene constraints (140 chars or extreme low res or a POKEY chip at 1MHz or whatever) … something humans maybe thought impossible … like a winning move that makes a go or chess grandmaster say WTF. It changes what’s possible. But then most of us (?) still hope the sport/scene/art goes back to human endeavour.

    I’ve been to parties where demos are running on a large screen, even ones we’ve seen before, and the audience will ooo and aah because a human figured out how to do that stuff under constraint. The magic is lost if it’s generated IMO.

    by emptybits

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