Q and not Q

May 14, 2006 1:59 PM

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.
posted by BlackLeotardFront (12 comments total)

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.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 2:08 PM on May 14, 2006

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

Previously.
posted by logicpunk at 2:34 PM on May 14, 2006

That's some freaky shit.
posted by MrMoonPie at 2:36 PM on May 14, 2006

One man's clipping error is another man's kaleidoscope.
posted by fleacircus at 2:45 PM on May 14, 2006

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.
posted by scalefree at 3:13 PM on May 14, 2006

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.
posted by scalefree at 3:23 PM on May 14, 2006

I died before actually starting the game.
posted by Drexen at 4:11 PM on May 14, 2006

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.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 4:35 PM on May 14, 2006

Dude, fix your video card.
posted by quite unimportant at 10:02 PM on May 14, 2006

Wow.

Ummm, not.
posted by Samizdata at 11:57 PM on May 14, 2006

I saw it on the big screen.

The last new release film they showed at that cinema was Star Wars. The original film.
posted by asok at 12:44 AM on May 15, 2006

Dunno. It looks like what always happens when you poke around the source of computer games and change an operator here, a variable there.
posted by ori at 3:04 AM on May 15, 2006