Landon Curt Noll
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Changed the model of `status.json` model.
Updated `status.json` IOCCC_status_version from "0.2 2023-05-22"
to "1.0 2024-03-09".
Updated FAQ 2.6, improving how IOCCC entries announced.
Moved `bin/ioccc-status.sh` to `tmp/ioccc-status.sh`
now that we have a new status.json model for
which this tool no longer fits (sorry tm Canada 🇨🇦).
Added `status.md` markdown to explain the `status.json` model.
Added `status.html` to both display the contents of `status.json`
and render the contents of `status.md` as HTML.
Added `bin/status2html.sh` to convert `status.json`
into HTML for the `status.html` file.
Added `bin/gen-status.sh` to form `status.json`
and `status.html` files.
Added `make gen_status` to top level Makefile.
Performed `make www` to complete all of the above.
To build:
make
To use:
make check
You'll need to have both Ruby and ImageMagick installed to run all the automated checks.
If you do not have both, however, you can still do the below in the try
section to enjoy the entry. The Makefile check rule will check if
you have both and if either is not found it will report it and tell you where to
download one or both before exiting.
Try:
less jpeg.c
Next look at jpeg.jpg in an image viewer program.
Judges' remarks:
This is a program which, when fed its own source, generates a program that almost is its whitespace inverse, which, in its order, generates a JPEG file (speaking of file size abuse, that is about 16.4 times larger than a PBM file with the same image, but the source was also abusing the size counting program...)
Don't pay attention to the OCR behind the ruby curtain --- it's a
straightforward bitmap comparison.
Author's remarks:
Highlights
- LZ77-like compression for font and template data
- tiny JPEG encoder
- Zig-zag space-filling curve
- Discrete cosine transform
- JPEG Huffman encoding (cheating)
Notes
I picked JPEG instead of PNG, GIF, or BMP because it is the most difficult to generate. I believe that the JPEG encoder is the world's smallest ever.
Nevertheless, the program was too big to meet the IOCCC's size rule. So I
created a smaller bootstrap program that generates the main program. endoh2.c
contains fragments of the main program as a comment which iocccsize -i does
not count. I gratefully thank the judges for spoiling the size rule this
year.
I think the program will work on any major platforms and compilers.
Legal
This program uses (a part of) Proggy Tiny Fonts which is distributed in MIT License:
Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 Tristan Grimmer
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