Living Worlds: 8 Bit art animated with palette cycling (2012)
I actually find tech like this kind of depressing.<p>It's such a lovely art form... but such an anachronistic one.<p>It's funny, you could say the same about all real-world art forms too, but somehow hand-crafting things don't bother me on the same level as this kind of tech.<p>With things like the pi zero, the cost of a machine that can endlessly run full video is vastly eclipsed by the screen to present it on.  So simple palette animations are now pointless.  Filesize?  My phone has over 100GB.  Bandwidth?  Streaming is everywhere.<p>But I love this stuff.  I love the aesthetic, the limitations, the tech that is simple-enough I can fit the whole concept into my head until I see the hellscape of optimizations that it took to squeeze out every last iota of performance on old machines that <i>shouldn't</i> be able to do this.