IBNIZ

IBNIZ is a virtual machine designed for extremely compact low-level audiovisual programs. The leading design goal is usefulness as a platform for demoscene productions, glitch art and similar projects. Mainsteam software engineering aspects are considered totally irrelevant.

IBNIZ stands for Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo. The name also refers to Gottfried Leibniz, the 17th-century polymath who, among all, invented binary arithmetic, built the first four-operation calculating machine, and believed that the world was designed with the principle that a minimal set of rules should yield a maximal diversity.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aKMrBaXJvMs " target="_blank"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/aKMrBaXJvMs/0.jpg" alt="Demo Video" width="240" height="180" border="10" /></a>

• Demo video
• Documentation
• Web site
• Community: #countercomplex @ IRCnet
• Javascript implementation (git)
• Another Javascript implementation (git)

Building

Linux

Prerequisites:

• SDL v1.2.x

Run these commands:

cd src
make

MacOS

Prerequisites:

• Apple developer tools (installed with Xcode)
• SDL v1.2.x (an easy way to get SDL is via Homebrew brew install sdl)

Run these commands:

cd src
make -f Makefile.osx

Windows

Prerequisites:

• MinGW
• SDL v1.2.x

Run these commands:

cd src
make -f Makefile.win