ASCII Art - Obfuscated C Doughnut

StuartBruff · ‎Sep 10, 2021

My younger son pointed out the following YouTube video to me:

It shows an ASCII Art toroid (doughnut/donut) written in C, with the code nicely obfuscated to look like a doughnut.

I couldn't replicate the obfuscation in Mathcad (although my code is usually obfuscated at the best of times), but I did think that I might try to produce the "animation". If I had Mathcad 15, I could have used the animation facility, but as I'm using Prime 7.0, I constructed a vector of successive frames, instead.

Stuart

I would have presented a more generalized version (eg, user-defined: row size, column size, and perspective depth), but I only have a few more days of the 30-day Trial left, and far too many other worksheets under development to spend upon a relatively undemanding task.

LucMeekes · ‎Sep 16, 2021

Something like the attached?

Luc

StuartBruff · ‎Sep 16, 2021

@LucMeekes wrote:

Something like the attached?

Indeed - including perspective, replacing the equations used in the C code.

OOIC, did you use animation or drive the 3D Plot Component directly?

Stuart

LucMeekes · ‎Sep 17, 2021

You see all there is to see regarding the Mathcad 'code': FRAME was not used. I plotted the doughnut, turned it's view to a nice position and gave it a modest swing (which is the hardest part). Then I grabbed the screen for the duration of more than a single turn, converted the footage to an animated gif and cut pictures until a single turn of pictures remained.

Luc

StuartBruff · ‎Sep 17, 2021

@LucMeekes wrote:

You see all there is to see regarding the Mathcad 'code': FRAME was not used. I plotted the doughnut, turned it's view to a nice position and gave it a modest swing (which is the hardest part). Then I grabbed the screen for the duration of more than a single turn, converted the footage to an animated gif and cut pictures until a single turn of pictures remained.

Luc

Oh, the things we do for art. That sounds suspiciously like "hard work" and "effort". I think I might have to reach for the medicinal brandy and have a lie-down until the effects of those words pass ... 🙂

Stuart

LucMeekes · ‎Sep 17, 2021

I think it was 15 minutes...

StuartBruff · ‎Sep 17, 2021

@LucMeekes wrote:

I think it was 15 minutes...

15 minutes? Who has such time? I once spent 2 years programming some software to avoid 2 minutes work.

Worth it!

Stuart

StuartBruff · ‎Sep 17, 2021

That's strange ... I can't see my Mathcad worksheet as an attachment.

Just in case, I'll add it to this post.

Stuart