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Binary of Babel by Segfault Garden
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release date : october 2010
release party : The Alternative Party 2010
compo : alternative demo
ranked : 2nd
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Now this is just excellent. I'd say this is one of the greatest "hacker"-mentality demos I've seen in the past few years. Lot of parts causing laughs at the party as well :D
rulez added on the 2010-10-24 22:59:13 by visy visy
great job!
rulez added on the 2010-10-24 23:21:26 by spiikki spiikki
I dig the concept and the execution. I kept thinking about a lot of different "hello world" in langauge X, Y. But you proved me wrong :)
added on the 2010-10-24 23:56:29 by oasiz oasiz
Forgot to thump up.
rulez added on the 2010-10-24 23:58:10 by oasiz oasiz
Linux 32 or windows binary or video plz ...
added on the 2010-10-25 00:44:51 by Anat Anat
If the demo indeed does what it implies it does it's pure awesome.
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 10:24:25 by uncle-x uncle-x
gorgeous coder porn in its purest form
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 10:37:28 by urs urs
uncle-x: yep, it does. just perused the sources for a bit.
added on the 2010-10-25 10:45:13 by visy visy
video plz.
added on the 2010-10-25 11:00:06 by xeron xeron
Here is the video ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOVF6AuAFtg
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 11:01:51 by JustEpyx JustEpyx
great idea. great implementation. great presentation.. the "garbage collectors" bit made me do a lol ;D
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 11:10:54 by evilpaul evilpaul
Hah. Great idea :)
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 11:11:10 by xeron xeron
Had a great time watching this. My inner geek-child is filled with joy :)
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 11:44:32 by gloom gloom
http://scene.org/file.php?file=%2Fparties%2F2010%2Faltparty10%2Falternative_demo%2Fbinary_of_babel_by_segfault_garden.zip&fileinfo

Note that this ran on a dedicated machine during the compo.
From what I have heard, it's a REAL bitch to get running properly. Instructions literally are: "Install as many libs as possible until it doesn't complain anymore", plus it's linux. :)

-- So, I think you are better off watching the video instead ;)
added on the 2010-10-25 11:48:28 by oasiz oasiz
"interference pattern in bourne shell"
that's DIEHARD!
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 12:16:13 by jaw jaw
"This product found bugs in" :D Enjoyed the demo, cool idea.
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 12:26:34 by StingRay StingRay
Liked this prod. Visuals, music and context.
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 12:28:14 by SoDa7 SoDa7
i don't get it. it shows that:
- all these languages somehow support arrays, loops, elementary arithmetic and c integration.
- eh

oh wait, that's all it shows.

how is that geek porn? a for loop in FORTRAN is still a for loop. a trivial effect is still a trivial effect. an RPC call or an embedded scripting language call is still a matter of copying the example from the tutorial. what am i missing? i haven't seen a single novelty here.
sucks added on the 2010-10-25 12:45:23 by skrebbel skrebbel
of course skrebbel has a point, but it is still a cool thing/idea to combine so many languages in one prod. this isnt about showing off new effects or something.
true geek-spirit that well deserves a thumb.
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 15:42:19 by wysiwtf wysiwtf
SCHEME!
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 15:46:33 by moqui moqui
Pure integration nightmare =)
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 15:50:07 by sol_hsa sol_hsa
i trust in xeron for the amiga port, btw!
added on the 2010-10-25 16:01:05 by skrebbel skrebbel
A novel concept indeed!
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 18:39:01 by Marq Marq
I wrote some information about the demo in my blog.

added on the 2010-10-25 19:47:20 by Satoris Satoris
video please!
added on the 2010-10-25 19:49:50 by Paralax Paralax
fuck, it's insane. never saw something like that.
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 19:52:25 by diver diver
the fact that there's a video capture in that blog link might be beneficial to know. Also you're insane or very masochistic :)
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 20:02:35 by Paralax Paralax
really nice done. <3
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 20:10:43 by nekomono nekomono
this is fucking amazing
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 20:21:09 by Queen_Luna Queen_Luna
Having to code in Fortran for work right now I can only thumb up in sympathy.
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 20:37:10 by Rouquemoute Rouquemoute
unique!
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 21:54:04 by Skate Skate
skrebbel has a point, but props for the fun factor :)
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 22:49:52 by Alpha C Alpha C
Crazy thing
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 23:31:11 by BackSpace BackSpace
thumb up for the work but i agree with skrebbel
rulez added on the 2010-10-25 23:48:32 by wullon wullon
I guess coders can enjoy this...

music was very nice though.
added on the 2010-10-26 00:13:01 by Proteque Proteque
You're mad :)
rulez added on the 2010-10-26 00:32:27 by morten morten
Crazy idea. Looks like a demo from the early nineties, though :-)
rulez added on the 2010-10-26 00:33:51 by Sesse Sesse
great idea :)
rulez added on the 2010-10-26 01:59:16 by shock__ shock__
hahaha, superconcept
rulez added on the 2010-10-26 02:00:30 by Optimus Optimus
where is qbasic? :)
rulez added on the 2010-10-26 08:25:36 by spritus spritus
this is madness!
rulez added on the 2010-10-26 10:24:12 by v3nom v3nom
Makes me kinda sad that I'm not a coder.

Makes me kinda glad that I'm not a coder.
added on the 2010-10-26 19:16:22 by glxblt glxblt
Awesome job @_@
rulez added on the 2010-10-26 20:48:06 by untel untel
Exactly what glxblt said.
added on the 2010-10-26 20:53:20 by noby noby
what glxblt and noby said
added on the 2010-10-26 21:17:07 by leGend leGend
what visy said!!!
rulez added on the 2010-10-27 05:52:45 by pera pera
The demo equivalent of playing the same tune on dozens of different musical instruments, in a good way.
rulez added on the 2010-10-27 13:47:25 by CiH CiH
All that programming languages and it still doesn't look good. Just choose one and do something better now.
sucks added on the 2010-10-27 14:12:30 by xernobyl xernobyl
I have to admit, it's not really beautiful, but i really like the idea and find it amazing - which is the essence of a demo, after all.
rulez added on the 2010-10-27 19:19:02 by Paranoid Paranoid
Thumb up for COBOL ;)
rulez added on the 2010-10-27 21:38:57 by mke mke
What Xernobyl said. Tech showoffs are so 80's
sucks added on the 2010-10-27 23:13:49 by samurai samurai
+ for the effort
+ some of the artwork is pretty nice
+ linux
- 64 bits oh well..
rulez added on the 2010-10-27 23:25:29 by zeroshift zeroshift
cool "how to" idea and execution
rulez added on the 2010-10-28 02:03:06 by Bobic Bobic
where's the brainfuck part?
rulez added on the 2010-10-28 03:23:05 by quisten quisten
crap design
sucks added on the 2010-10-31 07:08:09 by newart newart
kick ass :D
rulez added on the 2010-10-31 17:50:30 by thec thec
great
rulez added on the 2010-10-31 19:27:16 by Chainsaw Chainsaw
goooo diversity
rulez added on the 2010-11-01 11:55:43 by Ransom Ransom
neat idea saves from sucks.
added on the 2010-11-01 17:33:20 by pommak pommak
Lulz. Thumb up for the idea.
rulez added on the 2010-11-02 12:52:29 by Charlie Charlie
what pommak said
cool idea/execution and a nice soundtrack.
rulez added on the 2010-11-04 12:55:01 by neptun neptun
Coder porn!

I wish there were F# though. :)
rulez added on the 2010-11-05 01:07:48 by LLB LLB
Nice!
rulez added on the 2010-11-05 06:23:22 by bitl bitl
Wow, I really love this. What is the last language? Pascal? Haskell ?
rulez added on the 2010-11-05 12:07:36 by ponce ponce
Enjoyed it.
rulez added on the 2010-11-05 12:21:22 by Radiant Radiant
Great! That's a cool concept focused demo!
rulez added on the 2010-11-05 14:31:28 by Zavie Zavie
funny concept, nice music, cool performance to integrate all those languages into a single demo
rulez added on the 2010-11-05 19:05:30 by xoofx xoofx
Nice concept :) !
rulez added on the 2010-11-05 19:18:04 by Anat Anat
nice idea and great tune.
rulez added on the 2010-11-05 19:44:01 by sensenstahl sensenstahl
The design was imo good enough so sustain the concept :)

Is the source code going to be released at some point so one can evaluate the madness in getting all the langage runtimes to work together?
rulez added on the 2010-11-06 11:04:47 by Dbug Dbug
Interesting. :)
added on the 2010-11-06 18:18:50 by AntDude AntDude
...LOGO? :)
rulez added on the 2010-11-06 18:40:18 by bdk bdk
this sucks, there is no haskell in there!!!1

(just kidding, nice concept. It's more performance art than demo, but still. Also, the raytracer implementation is funny)
rulez added on the 2010-11-06 19:21:19 by blala blala
...BASIC? :)
added on the 2010-11-07 06:19:53 by AntDude AntDude
Nice concept !
rulez added on the 2010-11-07 15:23:41 by yannshu yannshu
You wanted the source code, you got the source code!
added on the 2010-11-10 21:49:53 by Satoris Satoris
Porn!
rulez added on the 2010-11-10 21:58:25 by Cosmocat Cosmocat
What no perl?
rulez added on the 2010-11-11 00:48:48 by Claw Claw
COBOL! \o/ So I should start coding demos at work? :)
rulez added on the 2010-11-16 21:52:11 by Mystra Mystra
Fun to make? I think so!
rulez added on the 2010-11-16 22:36:54 by velusip velusip
Brilliant concept! Must have been very fun to make indeed.
rulez added on the 2010-11-19 10:54:32 by Tarmil Tarmil
Nice concept, liked the whole demo style, but still required some design... Also raytracing in cobol was awesome!
rulez added on the 2010-11-19 13:16:18 by Defiance Defiance
The idea sounds fun at first... from a coder point of view.

But seriously, this is just ugly from A to Z... the soundtrack doesn't even save it (everybody should be able to do that after some months with free synths and samples)

(and it lacks a tv noise)

ps: I'm saving the thumb down in case I missed a joke somewhere :)
Oh damn no, I didn't save the thumb, awwww :)
kaneel, programming languages are bicycles for the mind... it's like watching a lot of bicycles. Pure coder porn.
added on the 2010-11-19 14:03:53 by ponce ponce
dude, there are many amazing bike frames that clearly show both artistic and crafting works... here, it may be technically great, it's clearly ugly.
receive another glowing thumb
rulez added on the 2010-11-20 04:08:44 by gentleman gentleman
rulez added on the 2010-11-20 16:16:47 by psenough psenough
Unlike what knl says, there's artistic value in the approach/concept, and ll the rest is crafting work.
Worth a thumb.
rulez added on the 2010-11-20 19:08:32 by BarZoule BarZoule
nice brain-gym idea! did you know all the languages up front?
rulez added on the 2010-11-20 19:59:49 by loaderror loaderror
looks and feels like linux !
but the presentation makes me thumb up !
but eventho its coded in 27 languagaes i dont think the code is worth anything at all !
( there are effects that work at other platforms, while language doesnt matter ;) ...or well, should be in assembly! )
sucks added on the 2010-11-23 20:20:05 by ɧ4ɾɗվ. ɧ4ɾɗվ.
uuh, sorry, wrong thumb...was meant to show up :(
i think this demo just underlines chuck yaeger: it's the man, not the machine. :/
added on the 2010-12-04 13:56:50 by Gargaj Gargaj
Most of the languages were learnt along the way.
added on the 2010-12-18 15:24:15 by Satoris Satoris
For the concept, and it's quite well designed too! :)
rulez added on the 2010-12-18 17:26:32 by baah baah
For being educational by adding the source. This is "Hello world" in the demo scene way.
rulez added on the 2010-12-27 20:44:17 by JAC! JAC!
is this a joke?. i wonder how this came in nominees for most original concept. when you're going to make a demo with oldschool effects do it right next time! it doesnt have the decency to be original with those ugly color-schemes and what not!
sucks added on the 2011-02-15 21:58:48 by rudi rudi
good work, demo itself looks better than the screenshot. @rudi, I missed when we started to have "standards" for art.
rulez added on the 2011-03-07 09:56:03 by SSG SSG
great stuff!
rulez added on the 2011-04-23 03:02:00 by phobium phobium
Meh. Somehow this still feels gimmicky to me.
added on the 2011-04-23 09:32:39 by msqrt msqrt
great concept and I like the result :D
rulez added on the 2011-09-01 16:51:14 by rez rez
Nice and original.
rulez added on the 2011-09-01 17:33:20 by jack-3d jack-3d
For the amusement, the novelty, the cheekiness and the source.
rulez added on the 2011-10-20 21:27:34 by t-zero t-zero
Rulez!!! Clearly not "0 demoscene experience" - they've definitely watched some demos :)
rulez added on the 2011-12-16 21:17:54 by cxw cxw
nice
rulez added on the 2012-10-01 13:01:42 by las las
:D
rulez added on the 2012-10-01 13:07:25 by raer raer
Epic.
rulez added on the 2012-10-01 20:03:16 by chock chock
This can actually be quite interesting even if you are not into demos (yes, there are such people) because the source code demonstrates a large variety of different programming languages, including a couple of exotic ones and such that are hardly ever used for graphic programming.
rulez added on the 2012-11-01 17:00:32 by Adok Adok
Twenty-three languages in a single program are impressing. BTW. I've just finished reading
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks.
rulez added on the 2012-11-07 09:45:13 by 0xF 0xF
crazy!
rulez added on the 2014-05-03 23:18:56 by T$ T$
I don't have Linux. Only watched in youtube! and seriously, Segfault Garden. y u no greeting!?
rulez added on the 2015-04-14 16:05:55 by non-handled guy non-handled guy
great idea, concept and execution!
this is real geek spirit ;)
rulez added on the 2017-04-14 14:09:41 by whizart whizart
every demo needs a cobol wobbly flag!
rulez added on the 2017-09-11 22:41:24 by caffeine_demon caffeine_demon
jep, definitely coder porn !
rulez added on the 2017-09-12 22:47:12 by Asato Asato
definitely a cool idea
I laughed pretty hard. This is definitely deserving of the title of alltime top linux only prod!
rulez added on the 2021-05-19 17:42:25 by byteobserver byteobserver
legendary effort
rulez added on the 2021-06-23 13:53:43 by cce cce
The performance is in the programming challenge and no one cares if it looks cool or not
rulez added on the 2021-06-23 14:02:00 by PulkoMandy PulkoMandy
YOutube says the video "has been deleted" ...Then I remembered I was a Linux user (mx Linux) and for once I could just download and launch ^^
added on the 2021-06-24 15:16:29 by Shantee Shantee
Quote:
YOutube says the video "has been deleted" ...Then I remembered I was a Linux user (mx Linux) and for once I could just download and launch ^^

It seems to be an ancient dependency hell though. I hope a brave warrior steps up and capture this.
added on the 2021-06-24 22:33:27 by El Topo El Topo
from what i can remember from seeing the now deleted vidcap, it was a cool idea. wish i could see it again :(
rulez added on the 2022-11-30 19:52:49 by Flashira Flashira

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