High-Resolution Mandelbrot in Obfuscated Python

http://preshing.com/20110926/high-resolution-mandelbrot-in-obfuscated-python

by Garbage • 15 years ago

86 12 15 years ago

erkmene• 15 years ago

The fact that this is accomplished in a language where whitespace really matters impressed me the most.

jrockway2• 15 years ago

Whitespace can matter, but ; counts as a newline and you can have any whitespace inside an expression that you want. Typically you'll write something like:

   some_function( with, lots,
                  of args )

but you can also use that flexibility to make your source code look like a badass fucking fractal too.

froo• 15 years ago

> badass fucking fractal

Ok, I haven't actually logged in for over 12 months and kept to pure occasional lurking, but you made me do it just to vote up your JoCo reference.

Look what you've done.

sylvinus• 15 years ago

I think "High-Resolution" is a bit misleading when talking about a fractal :)

riobard• 15 years ago

Mathematically, yes, but since he's rendering an actual bitmap, “high-resolution“ is appropriate.

wulczer• 15 years ago

Also see the Mandelbrot set in SQL: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set

ctdonath• 15 years ago

That...is the most perverted implementation of awesomeness ever.

keithpeter• 15 years ago

Ruth was just asking last week 'what happened to fractals'. Might run the poster containing its own source code past the teenagers I'm teaching maths to...

spot• 15 years ago

a better bet: http://vimeo.com/27688359 http://electricsheep.org https://picasaweb.google.com/103341545636445568670/Presskit

astrodust• 15 years ago

An ASCII version in Perl: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=165283

High-Resolution Mandelbrot in Obfuscated Python

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