Comments on: Q and not Q

Q and not Q

BlackLeotardFront — Sun, 14 May 2006 13:59:10 -0800

Q, a sort of digital art hack of Quake - from Nullpointer, where you can find all sorts of cool digital art-type stuff. The game world is twisted unrecognizably yet the feeling of motion and action is preserved - . Download here and run (8.5mb, Windows only, I'm afraid). It's successor is QQQ, a similar effort done for Quake 3. No download but movies here. Also on Nullpointer is the fantastic WebTracer, a tool for visualizing websites as 3d networks of nodes. Here's what MeFi looks like with 1000 nodes tracked.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Sun, 14 May 2006 14:08:06 -0800

If you're having trouble quitting, hit escape in the game/thing, then hit up once, then return, then "y". It's going to the "quit" thing in the menu, but if you've never played quake before you probably wouldn't know where that is. Let me know if you find a way to get around in a new game...I'm trying to get the Quake Done Quick demos playing but it's not happening. My quake console skillz are weak.

By: logicpunk

logicpunk — Sun, 14 May 2006 14:34:40 -0800

NPRquake does something similar, but, er, more literally. Previously.

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Sun, 14 May 2006 14:36:15 -0800

That's some freaky shit.

By: fleacircus

fleacircus — Sun, 14 May 2006 14:45:55 -0800

One man's clipping error is another man's kaleidoscope.

By: scalefree

scalefree — Sun, 14 May 2006 15:13:06 -0800

Also on Nullpointer is the fantastic WebTracer, a tool for visualizing websites as 3d networks of nodes. Here's what MeFi looks like with 1000 nodes tracked.

This is the coolest thing I have ever seen.

By: scalefree

scalefree — Sun, 14 May 2006 15:23:05 -0800

The next thing to do with NetTracer would be to add modules to determine the network topology type mathematically, whether it's a power-law network or not, etc., & then use the results to rearchitect the website by modelling the flow of information through the site & tweaking the parameters to make the network more or less efficient according to its network properties. You could apply it to any network, it just happens that these guys did it with the network of links within a website. Yeah, this is something really interesting, it bears a lot of further inspection IMO.

By: Drexen

Drexen — Sun, 14 May 2006 16:11:25 -0800

I died before actually starting the game.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Sun, 14 May 2006 16:35:33 -0800

Filthy. If you get dem files from QDQ put them in the \Q\ID1\ directory. Then open the program, hit the tilde (`) key, and type playdemo x where x is the name of the demo. works like a charm, but I imagine only for the demos of the levels in the ... demo. I'm watching QDQ with a vengeance in freaky mode now.

By: quite unimportant

quite unimportant — Sun, 14 May 2006 22:02:31 -0800

Dude, fix your video card.

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Sun, 14 May 2006 23:57:49 -0800

Wow. Ummm, not.

By: asok

asok — Mon, 15 May 2006 00:44:10 -0800

I saw it on the big screen. The last new release film they showed at that cinema was Star Wars. The original film.

By: ori

ori — Mon, 15 May 2006 03:04:29 -0800

Dunno. It looks like what always happens when you poke around the source of computer games and change an operator here, a variable there.