Re Postscript [was: Re: OT: PC World are useless - was Re: [Gllug] OT: microdirect.co.ukreliable?]
Holger Duerer
hduerer at gmx.net
Wed Jan 19 10:27:05 UTC 2005
>>>>> "Tet" == Tethys <tet at createservices.com> writes:
Tet> Richard Jones writes:
>> I've even found that there was an obfuscated Postscript
>> competition held in 1993; you can find the results here:
>> http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb/contrib/postscript/obfuscated-1993/
>> ('labyrinth.ps' is my favorite).
[...]
Tet> This PostScript program is a full ray tracer. It's not just
Tet> regurgitating a pregenerated image -- it's really creating it
Tet> on the fly. Quite impressive in 11 lines of code:
[...]
I remember (I think it was in '93) finding a mandelbrot set rendering
postscript snippet in someone's .sig. Our poor Apple laserprinter was
busy all night to render a single page. :-)
Holger
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