Cool stuff

I guess only semi-related, but this guy does a bunch of really cool visual stuff and we covered some of his work in one of my other classes because he does all of his work with really awesome math and programming. And although it may seem like it isn't much of his work has really awesome fractal equations in the heart of the code, which I find really exciting to see how they turn into such beautiful images.

He does 4kb and 64kb contests where you submit an executable file of equal to or lesser than that size. The program then generates both music and video for your computer, calculates out each image and how to shade, model, texture, construct, create and recognize meshes, and finally render the image to go with the sound and produce it to the screen. He sticks all of this into a single file equal to or lesser than the values aforementioned, which is simply ridiculous. My favorite part is that unlike most computer competitions, while all this crazy optimization is going on, he doesn't lose the need for aesthetically pleasing video, which is why I'm posting it, so without further ado, I present the work of Iñigo Quílez:

Iñigo Quílez's work