We built the best "Bad Apple!!" in Minecraft | purplesyringa's blog
Demoscene is the art of pushing computers to perform tasks weren’t designed to handle. One recurring theme in demoscene is the shadow-art animation “Bad Apple!!”. We’ve played it on the Commodore 64, Vectrex (a unique game console utilizing only vector graphics), Impulse Tracker, and even exploited Super Mario Bros. to play it.
Credits This project required a great deal of ingenuity. In this post, I’ll detail how it came together, but first, I want to thank some incredible people who made it possible:Yuki, for inventing several core techniques, gathering raw data and preprocessing it with ffmpeg (I hate ffmpeg).Mia, for testing performance on a high-end PC and getting me up-to-speed on dithering techniques.kira, for testing performance, recording the video, and rubber duck debugging.
On low-end devices, you might have to install VulkanMod (preferably) or Sodium (if Vulkan is unavailable) for satisfactory performance. Avoid C2ME, as its autosaving facilities lead to performance regressions.The story
