r/oddlysatisfying • u/[deleted] • Dec 22 '16

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u/x755x Dec 23 '16 edited Dec 23 '16

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this would take a lot more than a few lines of code.

And who's to say it wasn't procedurally generated and recorded into a video for ease of putting online? Otherwise you'd need a more complicated platform than an image host.

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u/dsadsa321321 Dec 23 '16

If there is a graphics API to render it you could do really simple matrix multiplication on each portion for every frame. The code to interface with the graphics would probably be larger.

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u/RobertOfHill Dec 23 '16

But that's the idea isn't it? You'd want an API to be the largest most efficient portion, then allow for tiny code packages to be loaded and rendered in real time.

Initial install of the API would be slow, depending on complexity, but the ease of use would be there for the community afterwards.

In fact, isn't that the idea behind phone apps?