How the Commodore 64 demo “A Mind is Born” generates an excellent music video, using only 256 bytes of code?

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# [Link to Video of Demo](https://youtu.be/sWblpsLZ-O8)

No, I don’t mean megabytes. The entire program is 256 **bytes**. That’s significantly less than 0.0000003 gigabytes, to generate both the video and the audio. Call of Duty: Warzone, before they optimized the install size, was about **1 billion times** the install size of A Mind is Born. This seems completely impossible to me.

There’s an explanation of the code in the video description, but it’s the *opposite* of ELI5. I was hoping someone here could write up something a bit more accessible.

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Take what I write with a grain of salt as I am far from a computer expert, but I suppose there is code that is extremely optimized and compressed as much as possible and there seem to be patterns the program reuses by re-iterating code several times, this saving space on writing new code for other parts of the program.

There is one hell of a cool shader that is all geberated by code, and it looks like terrain with incredible details. Cant remember the nane tho, but that was 2 mb or less if im not mistaking!

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