Swarming Car Video: The 1K Project II

Via Octopus Dropkick and Pixelsumo:
"The 1K Project II is created by an artist called Blackshark... using the physics based driving game Track Mania. 1000 replays were recorded, then played back merged together using the reply editor. The result is a polished video of flocking swarming cars."

I found this yesterday afternoon and watched it enough times to have had a dream about it last night. It reminded me of being stuck in the backseat of the family Oldsmobile as a child, with the only escape offered by imagining a physics-defying car speeding alongside us, jumping trash cans, executing controlled skids, and doing flips in the air with hypnotic fluidity and grace. This is a bit like that same mental escape -- copied and pasted into the same part of your brain 1000 times over.

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Comments

[M.G.]

Wow, quite cool.

[Parq]

Considering the manifest content, it was remarkably placid. I actually found it relaxing to watch; more like watching water flow than like watching unimaginably violent road antics.

[Sensei Rebel]

Woho, I thought I was the only one who used to make imaginary vehicles and people run alongside us during a boring bus ride with my family asa a kid. But for me it was usually sort of a Spiderman guy who would run and jump across everything on the streets and I would be amazed at how he always caught up to us.

[Wah]

Awesome stuff. The flow of the whole thing is great. Is there a higher quality dl anywhere?