The 5k Contest
The 5k contest is basically a contest for web designers, developers, and web media artists to see what kind of cool stuff they can squeeze into 5 kilobytes or less in file size. When I first heard about this contest, I found it uniquely challenging.
I believe limitations can encourage creativity. for example, in college art classes occasionally I would set rules for myself like, “make a drawing with only two colors of crayola crayons.” In order to compensate for the limitation (2 crayons versus 64 prismacolors), I would learn an entirely new illustration technique. In fact, some of my best sketches were done with a twig dipped in black ink.
2002 entry
3D Tank Attack was co-authored with Patrick Curry.
Rank our 2002 entry on the 5k site
2001 entry
If you are interested in reading the source code, view the uncompressed version. It is slightly more readable.
Rank my 2001 entry on the 5k site
2001 5k entry (4933 bytes)
2001 5k entry (uncompressed version, 5339 bytes)
The idea came from an experiment I did earlier this year using javascript to read variables out of the url query string. There are still a few problems with the original that I either fixed or worked around for the 5k entry. This file is commented pretty well if you are interested.
