I Played DOOM Using Only Spinda Patterns

Based on the title, I thought this was gonna be something like each spinda pattern corresponding with a string of numbers to turn into inputs to eventually beat a level of doom using the right series of spindas. Needless to say I was incorrect in the best way possible.

Doom minimun requirements: _Have a screen(optional) _Have a CPU(optional) _Human player(optional, someone teached a rat how to play) _Being real(also optional, apparently)

Just letting you know, the touhou fanbase isn't exactly sane. There was a 50% chance they might have picked each frame by hand. You got lucky.

"Bad Apple" is the non-interactive equivalent of "Can it run Doom?" It's a music video based on the Touhou video game series, and it is entirely black-and-white. Which means that any kind of display or visualization that can distinguish between two colors (which is to say, all of them) can be used to display Bad Apple. The Touhou community recreated Bad Apple in r/place - just random people placing pixels onto a communal grid recreated the music video with a shocking amount of accuracy once the replay was sped up.

Missed opportunity at 5:40 to refer to it as a “spin-database”

The best way to play doom, when it takes literal weeks to play 10 seconds.

saying the words "Please enjoy" before showing me one of the most nightmarish creations to have ever existed. it's almost cruel

I wonder how Spinda's designer would feel about this. All of the chaos that this simple spot algorithm unleashed on something with a 360 BST.

"Spinda of best fit" was not something I thought I would hear today, but I'm here for it!

Doom and Bad Apple are both rules of the internet, they go hand in hand. If it has a screen; it can play doom If it can exist in at least two states, it can play bad apple. Bad Apple is a boss theme from TouHou and got a remix on a CD that was released some time after the game it was featured it came out. This remix got used in a 3D animated music video that was quite ahead of its time for an indie animator making in his free time. And since that video took the internet by storm, a lot of people sought to recreated it on whatever they could. Including Minecraft Sheep, Rubik's Cubes, Super Mario 64, RGB keyboards, and many many more.

When you asked if I had a favourite Spinda pattern I, like a normal person of course, thought "why yes, it's the one where the dots cover its eyes" SO IMAGINE MY SURPRISE

Congrats on pregananant

Now I will play doom on a cell wall

This "optional homework" challenge reminds me so much of this video from a channel called Stand-up Maths. Basically, he tried to find the perfect set of five five-letter words to use for Wordle, all of which had unique letters from each other. His proof-of-concept code took 32 days to run... and after submitting the idea to his viewer base, they got it down to less than 3.5 milliseconds. Have fun, Mr. adef :)

Using a genetic algorithm to solve this problem is wild and almost certainly something Jakob did as a learning exercise. A realtime Spinda matrix screen (never thought I'd write that in my life but here we are) is definitely possible using image masking and bit manipulation, since the x and y coordinates of the dots are made by splitting the 32bit PID into four 8bit numbers. I might take a stab at this myself. Thank you for another incredible video on a topic I would never expect

perfect timing, I was JUST telling someone about my personal favourite way I've seen someone play DOOM (on gut bacteria)!

use shinys for more colour depth

Bad Apple 🤜🤛 Doom Having surprisingly similiar overlap of maniacs running them on things you're not supposed to run them on

RIP adef's power bill. Here's to a real one carrying the weight of the world on their back (also really really cool video)

Don't mess with Touhou fans, all of us are insane in at least one fashion. More seriously, this is super cool!