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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