tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35435986723191050182012-01-14T15:04:32.286-08:00Three european guys are traveling to San Francisco to arrange NVScene at NVISION 2008, and to spread the word of the demoscene.Bent S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08453309224675554661noreply@blogger.comBlogger421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543598672319105018.post-31843497445775634992008-08-28T15:01:00.001-07:002008-08-28T15:01:58.339-07:00

4k competition: Demo competition:

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Full results from NVScene here:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _ ___ _______ ____ ____ / | / / | / / ___/________ ____ ___ / __ \( __ ) / |/ /| | / /\__ \/ ___/ _ \/ __ \/ _ \ / / / / __ | / /| / | |/ /___/ / /__/ __/ / / / __/ / /_/ / /_/ / /_/ |_/ |___

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Okay, I'm close to speechless - that was probably both the best 4k and best demo compo I have attended this year. The prods were great, the crowd went wild - it was just a perfect evening of demoscene spirit! I'm going to bed now so I'm leaving you with this image:

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A magical number.Chaos' excellent user interface sketches for werkzeug.Chaos blows things up!Showing off werkzeug.

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Mentor/TBC is currently on stage, and the Q&A has just started. He thought he could just jump off stage and hide, but no. :) The audience wanted to know more about how making such 4k intros are possible.Mentor shows off the animation system used in Micropolis.Mentor tells us how NOT to make 4k intros."ARGH! IT'S THE INSIDE OF THE MATRIX!" (quote from Chaos :)Mentor shows off what the "source" of

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Demoscene.tv is present at NVScene, making reports and putting them online as soon as they are edited. Here you can follow these reports (Flash player is needed)

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People chilling out around the "bonfire"! Steeler giving the traditional german salute :)The american demo posse (from left to right: gd, zsazS, and trixter) Navis and someone from NVIDIA, Matt from the NVScene crew in the background. Phoenix/Hornet - demomaking is NOT A CRIME! Pan/Spinning Kids just before he went into camera-lens analytical mode. :)

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IQ just finished his talk on generating virtual worlds in 4 kilobytes on the GPU, and the room was packed. 140+ people, standing room only. Here are some pictures:Right now pretty much everyone is heading over to the keynote speech by Jen-Hsun Huang, so the room is finally quiet and relaxed again. :) The crew will be having some lunch now, and in an hour, the seminars will continue. Be sure not

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Okay, so.. right now there are 120+ people in the hall, listening to IQ's talk about "Rendering worlds in 4 kilobytes on the GPU", and I just had to share this picture with you:

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We're on! This morning at 09:00, people started to coming into the hall and finding their seats, and right now it is 10:50, and Preacher is just wrapping up his talk. I don't have much time to add a long rant about how cool it was, just trust me.. this is AWESOME! The hall is already almost completely packed (!) - a quick headcount gives me 80+ people right now.IQ is just about to start his talk

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Test-pattern, featuring Chaos/Farbrausch for size reference. :)The new projector lens is in place - ACTUAL SIZE! (click to enlarge - it's worth it!)

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Hey everyone, it's Duckers of Outracks! After Gargaj showed up at Solskogen without letting (hardly) anyone know, the norwegian scene mafia decided to get back at him and to secure the 1st place in the "Show up unannounced at demo parties"-award. :)Gargaj is surprised by Duckers!Aaaaw.. :)

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Chaos, Navis and Ekki in the limo (!)By popular demand, here is a picture from inside of the limo that picked us up at the airport. I apologize for the crappy picture quality, because it was shot with my mobile phone. :)Also, while travelling, you always take "funny" pictures - this one is from Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport on saturday afternoon:Chaos! :)

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If you want to skip to the compo machine specs, jump down to the bottom of this post!Monday: Last night we did a tour of the enormous venue, so we got to see both the NVScene room as well as the seminar-room and all the other halls around the venue (the GeForce LAN room, which is a just far enough from the NVScene room that we won't have a problem with noise, but just close enough that we can get

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After having been up since 04:00 this morning (which will make this my 24 waking hour today) we have finally arrived in San Jose. I ended up on the same plane as Pixtur, Chaos, Navis and Ekki and when we got to San Franciso we were picked up in a limo which was sort of absurd, but quite fun. :)We're all in the middle of organizing the party now, so here are just a few quick snapshots:This is the

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I have almost completed all of my packing, and in 5 hours I have to get up to go to Oslo Airport to travel to London, meet up with Ekki, Navis and Chaos and spend another 11 hours on the plane to San Francisco. Gargaj is already in San Francisco now, he landed a few hours ago (lucky bastard), and will probably be adding some posts to the blog while I'm in the air.NVScene - here I come!

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Whoa! In just one week it's time for NVScene in San Jose, California! If you live in the US, you REALLY can't afford to miss this! A three-day marathon of demoscene goodness (though you can come for just one day if you wish), with both demo and 4k intro competitions that are sure to blow your socks off. Also, the following guests will be attending from Europe and hosting talks and seminars

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We're returning - at NVScene during NVISION 2008, all of us will be back in California! It will be 11 months after our last visit and we are really looking forward to it. We hope that all of the people we visited on our first Demoscene Outreach Tour will attend NVScene in San Jose in August. We will also be hanging out a few extra days, probably going back to San Francisco as well, so if you're

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Finally, the demoscene in the U.S. has a forum now - sure, it looks a bit dire right now, but it will be a good start for future initiatives, so go join if you're located in North America :)

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Hey good people! Long time, no writey (we know, sorry :) -- we can now start to talk about our many NVIDIA meetings. If you want to take a look at some nice teaser info, be sure to visit www.nvision2008.com right now."For serious graphics users who can't wait to alter their reality, NVISION 2008 delivers the world's most awe-inspiring, mind blowing visual computing experiences. And that's just

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Approaching San Francisco (and about time as well - we'd been airborne for over 10 hours :)Yeah yeah, I know it's "TimbAland", but it's still funny. :)The roads were actually pretty horrible, and the people drove like animals.Yes, the Pixar lunch area is actually named "Cafe Luxo" :)Yes! We found an old ZAXXON arcade machine in the Pixar offices! :)STEAM'07 - now in the Bay Area!Steeler doing Q&

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After almost 29 hours of travel, three plane-trips and so many airport lobbies I don't want to see one for at least half a year.. I am home. :) Steeler is in Hamburg, and as far as I know, Gargaj is now home in Budapest.More pictures and stuff will come, but for now .. sleep is needed!

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US demomakers - start your engines!It is now 08:30 here in San Francisco, and after spending the previous eight or nine days either travelling or doing outreach, it will actually be good to set foot on native soil again. For me, that means Norway, for Steeler, it is Germany, and for Gargaj, it is the home of the "Culture Crash" (or Hungary, as some people say :)It has been an amazing trip, and we

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"Luxo 4k" - a 4096 bytes Windows executable that displays the Pixar intro animation in realtime.The people who attended our talk at Pixar got to see this first, but now it is available for you as well. It was our little "special gift" to Rick at Pixar for inviting us in the first place (plus, he just had a birthday as well :) and was show for the very first time at the main cinema in the Pixar

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Bent's visitors badge - note the text: "A stranger from the outside!"The others are out shopping in the Apple store (*shudder*), so I guess I'll fill you in on the happenings of yesterday: We spent the whole day at our primary objective and primary host in San Francisco, Pixar Animation Studios.After taking a short tour around the campus, we first met up with the R&D team of the company, and gave

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We just had to. Sorry. :)

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...is pixar time. We're going to meet up with Rick (our host - thanks for setting this up for us!) in the morning, take a tour of the studio and then get started with our meetings. We have booked a couple with the different departments, and later on we will be doing our main presentation.It will be held in one of the cinema facilities at Pixar and people who work there are invited, in addition to

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The NVIDIA offices were in Santa Clara, about a one hour drive from San Francisco, in the direction of San Jose.So, as you might remember, our first presentation with NVIDIA went really well, and we were called back for a second meeting. After the Adobe presentation today we headed back to NVIDIA for that..The on-campus lunch/food/relaxation premises is called the "nStreet café" - now isn't that

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The crowd at Adobe, about 20 people came to see our presentation.Today we had a meeting at Adobe, with their Flash team. The meeting room was packed (people had to sit on the floor actually) and they applauded after the demos which is always really nice to see (especially when we are not the ones who start the applause :)Same crowd, different angle. :)We showed a Flash demo as well this time (

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We just woke up and we are getting ready to present at Adobe today. To be more precise we are going to the ex-macromedia Flash team which is located in San Francisco while the Adobe HQ is in San Jose. Nevertheless as you might know Shiva of Kolor just joined the Flash dev-team to help them getting things done into the right direction ;) I don't know really how much I can tell you but it seems

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The Bay Bridge at night. Big shiny city, long bridge, DV camera with night vision. Yay!

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Steeler and Gargaj in the park at the Letterman Digital Arts Centre.This short video was shot after our presentation at Lucasfilm / Industrial Light and Magic today. Be sure to take a look at the website for the campus as well - it was really, really nice! (the website shows a picture of a theatre - that was actually the one we held our presentation in :)Now it's time to sleep, as we will

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Gargaj, Gloom and Steeler outside the ILM/Lucasfilms Studio B entrance.So we just got back from our presentation (and AWESOME tour) at ILM/Lucasfilms. The presentation went really well, with around 50 people turning up. It was well-rounded crowd, and almost all of them stuck around for the whole thing, even lunch afterwards. :)We met AND there, and even a guy that used to be in nooon (yes, really

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Follow-up: so apparently things went really well yesterday. So well in fact, that we are going back to NVIDIA on thursday, after our presentation at Adobe. To be serious for a moment: we really feel that NVIDIA "gets" us and the demoscene. We already have a lot of cool ideas (spawned by both parties, it was not just us telling them what we would like - it was really a two-way conversation).The

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The outreach gang at the NVIDIA offices.Okay, so we are nearing the end of our presentation at NVIDIA - everything is going well and the spirits are high.. and then..? Earthquake! We kid you not. 5.6 on the Richter scale. :) Read more about it at CNN.com: "My God, I felt like running because the roof might come down on my head," she told the AP. "I've never felt anything like this in 16 years in

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Some people have asked us what our schedule looks like, and even though not everything is 100% decided, the days are as follows:Tuesday (today): NVIDIAWednesday (31.10): Industrial Light and Magic / LucasfilmThursday (01.11): AdobeFriday (02.11): Pixar and Bay Area Visual Effect SocietyOur plan is to keep you updated here both before and after our visits, so keep coming back for more. Now that

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This video was recorded yesterday - just a short report from Steeler. :)

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We actually do work as well. Preparing for the first of our presentations, taking place tomorrow (at NVIDIA). The foundation of the Bay Bridge is barely visible through the window.

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We're in the US allright. :)We woke up early today and decided to walk around a bit in the area around where we are staying. It was quite foggy then (though now it has cleared up and the sky is blue and the sun is shining :) and quite damp and cold. We took some picures though, and here they are (courtesy of Gargaj).Foggy morning. High tower. Looks like something directly out of "City 17" :)

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Gargaj took this picture of the sunset from San Francisco Int'l Airport.After being on the road since 05:00, we finally arrived in San Francisco yesterday (it's now 08:27 over here). We met Sebastian (Shiva of Kolor), who works at Adobe, and has kindly let us stay in his apartment. After we picked up the rented car we had to spend some time on an american freeway (which was eerie and scary at

Bent S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08453309224675554661noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543598672319105018.post-926078749312900702007-10-28T03:29:00.000-07:002007-10-28T03:52:24.115-07:00

We're currently at Heathrow airport in London, waiting. Steeler is filling up his PSP with music for the 11.5 hour long flight (!) to San Francisco. Gargaj is creating music of his own (from where I sit, it sounds sweet :) and Gloom .. well, he's writing this. :)Let's start by filling you in on some of the things that happened yesterday. Boring, yet not as boring that it didn't deserve being

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Hello everyone. This page is about a noble (not to be confused with Nobel) effort to spread the word (and joy) of the demoscene to the other side of the globe - from Europe to The United States of America (and we don't mean that one member of Farbrausch :).The trip began on the 27th of October, when Gloom and Gargaj traveled to Hamburg, Germany, to meet up with Steeler and leave for San Francisco

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