Everbloom by Desire [web]
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# a 64 byte intro by hellmood #
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# A young man once went for a morning walk into the surrounding #
# woods of the small town he lived in. Light fragments of mist #
# danced above the ground while the blue sky was about to show #
# the golden sun which emerged from the fire burning on the #
# horizon beyond the fields, woods and meadows. That man did not #
# care about nature nor about animals, small and big. He liked #
# to step on snails, breaking their tiny houses under his feet. #
# "It is not my fault if they are that slow" he used to say. He #
# also liked it to scare stray cats, yelling at them or throwing #
# rocks and stones trying to harm them. #
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# On that morning, when the first light of the sun painted #
# orange lines into the shadows of the woods, this man followed #
# a path leading to a clearing filled with blue flowers, fern #
# and strong, green grass. He stopped and looked around. Then, #
# all of a sudden, a little bird, a robin landed on a branch of #
# a tree on the other side of the clearing. He quickly searched #
# the ground for a stone and found one. He looked to the bird #
# realizing that it was too far away. So he slowly made one step #
# forward. Then another. He stopped as a breeze whispered in the #
# trees making the flowers, the fern and the grass move. Or did #
# the plants lure him to come closer? Did they become demonic #
# yet beautiful looking hands? #
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# The man made another step. And another. And just as he thought #
# he was close enough he stumbled over a root, fell and impaled #
# himself on a hard piece of dead wood which was hiding in the #
# grass. Just minutes after his last breath left his body the #
# plants started to feast on the flesh. #
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# And while the sun climbed the sky the colourful clearing got #
# more blue flowers, more fern and more grass. And as soon as #
# the body was hidden beneath the green carpet of nature the #
# little bird flew away while the plants seemed to wave goodbye. #
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# this is my take on classic fractals in x86 assembler. i always #
# wanted to combine the grayscale and rainbow colors of the VGA #
# palette in an intro. the basic idea is to color the pixel with #
# a different effect if it does not belong to the fractal. the #
# fractal itself is a modified julia set. the positive quadrant #
# is the only one used, which slightly alters and simplifies the #
# effect. since the calculation is 8bit based , Rrolas trick is #
# used to convert the screenpointer to 8-bit pseudo coordinates #
# to further save space. i did not find a good optimization for #
# the bailout check, rather than just using parts of the fractal #
# formula itself. there are some ways to implement waaay shorter #
# bailouts, which sadly totally destroys the desired effect. the #
# fake lighting idea has its origin in coloring a pixel in other #
# ways than just using the "iteration" number. even when a pixel #
# does *not* belong to the fractal, you can use the last x and y #
# values of the iteration. here, the y value is used to offset #
# the background pattern in the gray scale, which produces this #
# fake lighting/shadow effect. i did not manage to implement the #
# check for ESC. it's possible to scrap up to ~10 bytes from the #
# effect, but it differs tooooo much from the desired effect. if #
# YOU find a shorter effect keeping bailout function or you find #
# other optimizations, please let me know on pouet or elsewhere. #
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# the intro needs decent hardware to run smooth. it is tested on #
# real machines, DosBox needs about 400000! cycles and therefore #
# a much much better CPU than on real hardware. the compomachine #
# used at @party2018 had a K6-2-500 Mhz which looked sufficient. #
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# i included a slighly modified version : "demonhand" which was #
# inspired by, and is dedicated to, sensenstahl. (= thank you =) #
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# https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JezeN514cHM #
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# greets: #
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# sensenstahl,homecoded,rrrola,frag,T$ #
# Optimus,Trixter,igor,gentleman,VileR #
# Whizart,g0blinish,Rudi,ryg,Orby a.k.a. #
# orbitaldecay,wysiwtf,Kuemmel,p01,Lara #
# Oscar Toledo,Drift,maugli,Harekiet,etc #
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