Cody Boone Ferguson
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The sections have been modified a fair amount. The Entries menu has been extended to have: Fixing entries, Updating author info, Thanks for the help. The first two were moved from FAQ and the last one from About. The rationale for these, in order: entries and authors have to do with entries and most of the help involves entries. It also has to do with website but in 'about' it does not seem the right place, unless maybe it is renamed to 'Credits' or something (I am not suggesting this one way or the other). This one is debatable but that was the rationale. The Status menu has been extended to have: Markdown guidelines and Security policy. The rationale is that the markdown guidelines are part of contest guidelines and the security policy is about the status of the entries and how if there are any security problems they will not be addressed (instead of about the IOCCC). The FAQ was extended to have: Compiling entries, Running entries, How to help. The reason to not have compiling and running entries under Entries is because this is 'how to' and also the menu was too long. How to help seems like a good idea under FAQ too (was in About). About was extended to have the new 'about.html' page (from about.md). This is a rare case where a new file is useful as it fits under 'About'. The menu now is: Home page, About the IOCCC, The Judges, Contact us. I was pondering the 'About [the IOCCC]' at the top and also naming it 'About us' but it seemed like a link to index.html was necessary and as for 'about us' it seemed less clear as to whether it was about the judges or the contest itself. The FAQ has been updated slightly for this. After further inspection the bin/index.html and the inc/index.html links were removed from the about section. With these changes, renaming an item or slight reordering notwithstanding, I believe that #2006 is probably in good shape.
To build:
make all
To use:
./bas1.sh
Judges' remarks:
The output is supposed to be a 3D maze, but it is somewhat more than that. If you've seen any of the Maurits Escher's works, you'll know what we're talking about.
When trying to run the program with command line arguments, be generous.
Author's remarks:
BEMAZING
"You're in a twisty little maze of beams, all different."
Bemazing is "amazing" taken one step (letter) further. Bemazing
creates a 3D maze of beams. Try to go from the entrance (the
unfinished beam in one corner) to the exit (the unfinished beam in the
opposite corner) or vice versa.
For maximum portability, Bemazing is not tied to any window system, but
creates postscript output. The picture it makes will fit on either A4 or letter
size paper.
In addition, because postscript is rather verbose, Bemazing creates
the postscript in gzip(1) format, in order to save precious bits on your
hard disk for the latest version of GNU
Emacs (after all, you wouldn't
want to use an editor without a psychoanalyze-pinhead function, now
would you). Again for maximum portability, Bemazing will take special
care that the binary output will not contain any newline or return
characters that may get weird treatment on systems that do not use the
One True Line Separator.
NOTES
Be sure to view the source with something that can display characters
\240-\377. Use LESSCHARSET=latin1, M-x standard-display-european in
GNU Emacs etc. The source does not use characters in the range
\200-\237 (we are not an unnamed word processor that tends to create
HTML containing these control characters).
Because this is not the obfuscated postscript contest, the postscript
does not contain any for, if or other control structures. All the
logic is in the C code. There are only a few straightforward defs,
because otherwise the output would become much larger.
Try running Bemazing with command line arguments and see what
happens. (But note that the program only guarantees that there
actually is a route from entrance to exit if you run it without
command line arguments.)