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March 08, 2004

The Return Of The 5k Award

Finally the 5k Award is back. This year it will be hosted by SIGGRAPH 2004. What a great chance to demonstrate to the international nerd society the power of Flash. Build something amazing in 5120 bytes? What other tool is out there that could compete with Flash in this aspect? So even if the exact submission dates are not yet set I recommend you to start coding now - I'm sure that this year it will be a tough competition...

Posted at March 08, 2004 05:47 PM | Further reading

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what other tool? try processing ;) -> http://processing.org/

Posted by: rob on March 8, 2004 06:01 PM

We are talking about 5120 BYTES not 5120 k, so unfortunately you will not get very far with Processing in this competition.

Posted by: Mario Klingemann on March 8, 2004 06:05 PM

neither with flash. lol

Posted by: na on March 8, 2004 07:22 PM

Na? You don't happen to be a slashdotter? Or where did you get your precise knowledge about Flash? Even in 2001 when there was no gzip compression supported by Flash I did some PONG with it in under 5k: http://entries.the5k.org/288/5kpong.html

Posted by: Mario Klingemann on March 8, 2004 07:26 PM

again and again the same prejudices about flash. And isn't it easy enough to realize, its even in the name:

swf = small web format.

Posted by: AlexU on March 14, 2004 02:21 PM


	« Yamago Upload Component Update \| Home \| SciTE for AS2.0 » March 08, 2004 The Return Of The 5k Award Finally the 5k Award is back. This year it will be hosted by SIGGRAPH 2004. What a great chance to demonstrate to the international nerd society the power of Flash. Build something amazing in 5120 bytes? What other tool is out there that could compete with Flash in this aspect? So even if the exact submission dates are not yet set I recommend you to start coding now - I'm sure that this year it will be a tough competition... Posted at March 08, 2004 05:47 PM \| Further reading Comments what other tool? try processing ;) -> http://processing.org/ Posted by: rob on March 8, 2004 06:01 PM We are talking about 5120 BYTES not 5120 k, so unfortunately you will not get very far with Processing in this competition. Posted by: Mario Klingemann on March 8, 2004 06:05 PM neither with flash. lol Posted by: na on March 8, 2004 07:22 PM Na? You don't happen to be a slashdotter? Or where did you get your precise knowledge about Flash? Even in 2001 when there was no gzip compression supported by Flash I did some PONG with it in under 5k: http://entries.the5k.org/288/5kpong.html Posted by: Mario Klingemann on March 8, 2004 07:26 PM again and again the same prejudices about flash. And isn't it easy enough to realize, its even in the name: swf = small web format. Posted by: AlexU on March 14, 2004 02:21 PM Post a comment Name: Email Address: URL: Comments: Remember info?
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