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This is awesome! Just so you know, you are legally obligated to do Bad Apple when interest dies down.

By my estimation, it would only take 1/3 of a year to render

y'know, I've been excited / feared that Bad Apple would show up. The good news is a lot of frames would probably just be a few pixels to change from the previous frame, so some might draw really quickly.

Basically you want to avoid keyframes on this thing, they'll kill you

Some of the ports of Bad Apple have had to deal with this and they narrowed it down to the few changes needed for each frame. When there were too many pixels to change all at once, they would make fewer changes in exchange for a loss of quality.

https://trixter.oldskool.org/2014/06/19/8088-domination-post...

https://trixter.oldskool.org/2014/06/20/8088-domination-post...

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