Honey Bunnies
36 comments
·March 13, 2025bradleyy
closewith
Yeah, not sure how to articulate the feelings this invokes. A mixture of awe, joy, and bittersweet nostalgia.
pvg
The homepage is wild too, not that I can read most of what it says
tobyjsullivan
Links to many interesting demos. https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/glsl.html
Willingham
This one is particularly mesmerizing https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/young_5/young_5.html
hsuduebc2
Damn. I feel kinda physically unstable watching this. Mesmerizing indeed
marky1991
Question to whoever knows anything about this kind of stuff: Are loading times of these ever likely to get (meaningfully) better? The demos are all interesting, but having to wait forever (10-20s) before they load is excruciating. I would be afraid to know what the loading time of a non-demo kind of game would be.
stephenhumphrey
Unknown, but for anyone under-resourced, this experiment from the site loaded instantly for me:
nickthegreek
That might be local hardware related? These are loading up in under 3s for me.
girvo
They loaded instantly for me, but I'm on Firefox with a 5600X + RTX 4070 with a 1GB/s down internet connection
Joel_Mckay
I would recommend checking a reasonable game engine load time:
https://www.babylonjs.com/games/
The engine examples also have fluid like surface displacement animations in shader tricks.
Fun stuff for sure, but would never let it in production for a few reasons =3
siavosh
Like a fever dream.
noduerme
These are great experiments! Really a nice mix of art and engineering at play. It looks like they go all the way back to MM Shockwave days, and some from the early 2000s have been rewritten for canvas. I just spent an hour lost in this museum!
imp0cat
Yes, the entire website feels like a blast from the past, but modernized. It even includes a webring!
And the owner/author is a fan of Otamatone (https://www.thomann.de/uk/otamatone.html ) , that's great!
tmaly
Can anyone explain what that is that I am looking at?
redeux
For some reason this reminded me of the Great Molasses Flood.
voidfunc
Or as I like to call it, The Boston Mollasacre
Lammy
It reminds me of the “Ducks” PLAYSTATION3 demo from E3 2005 a.k.a. Super Rub-a-Dub:
Freak_NL
I have no idea what that website does, but clicking the link crashes my Firefox instantly.
jvdvegt
It's a GPU-heavy demo site. My Firefox on Linux handles it fine.
dylan604
I'm reminded of old Kai's PowerTools Goo, only animated.
chmod775
Impressive performance. Even runs at 60fps on a potato thinkpad.
wrboyce
This is great; inspired by Pulp Fiction I call my fiancée “Bee” (over the years: Honey Bunny -> HB -> Bee).
czk
Can't help but comment that the song Honey Bee by Tom Petty is an absolute banger as well.
qingcharles
My first thought wasn't so classy, it was this banger from Billie Piper:
QuercusMax
She was just barely 16 in 1998 when that was released, if you can believe that. Turns out we were born the same week!
dylan604
This might be the first time I've heard Tom Petty and banger in the same sentence. People tending to use banger this way tend to not be Tom Petty fans. Nothing wrong with crossing over, but it was a shock to the system.
wrboyce
Never heard it before, but just listened to it and we both enjoyed: so thanks! (Also, what a killjoy whoever downvoted my above comment is!)
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slowhadoken
Is this a reference to the Liquid Television short?
I very much appreciate that there are people in the world committed to their craft/art like this. Even if I only spend a couple minutes looking, it brought joy.