The Nineteenth Byte

7:00 AM

I'd be willing to write/flesh out the text of this challenge (tomorrow) if you want, since I really like the idea. :D You'd still post the challenge and OK what I write, and your images would still be used of course. — Calvin's Hobbies 17 mins ago

@Calvin'sHobbies: I'm perfectly fine with that. You are, after all, one of the best challenge writers on this site. :D — El'endia Starman 11 secs ago

Sparr

I think one of the saddest parts of PPCG for me is all of the "competing programs" challenges (like the KotH challenges) that have such short lives.

Calvin's Hobbies

@Mego That would be an invalid answer then. Changes (however internal) were made to the language.

Sparr

I remember in the 90s being involved in various communities around games like that where competitions and tournaments ran for years, with an evolving metagame

Anonymous

@Calvin'sHobbies True. The more I think about this, the more I'm agreeing with the invalidity.

Anonymous

I wasn't necessarily for the answer being valid - it was just a thought that popped in my head that I thought was interesting enough to warrant discussion

Anonymous

7:07 AM

@Sparr I agree, the KOTH challenges are neat, but there's a good reason for giving them a definitive end date.

Michelfrancis Bustillos

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Sparr

@Mego what's the good reason? what's wrong with KOTHs that run for years or decades?

Anonymous

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El'endia Starman

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Anonymous

@Sparr Having to re-run the controllers indefinitely is a pain

Anonymous

7:09 AM

Especially for contests that take a non-trivial amount of time to complete

Sparr

meh, only if you insist on a specific person running the controller

Anonymous

Which is typically the case

Sparr

we had a discussion a while back about a hypothetical KotH where the "controller" was a system that let anyone run instances of the controller in a code snippet, and contribute results back to be aggregated

Anonymous

Hmm

El'endia Starman

Didn't @PhiNotPi work on something towards this sort of goal?

Sparr

7:11 AM

I really want to optimize the "Cmpr" function in Marbelous

Anonymous

It would be interesting to set up a challenge where people submitted answers through pull requests to a GitHub repo

Sparr

it's just a>b?1:a<b?-1:0

it's central to all the comparison operators

Anonymous

With a Heroku app set on auto deploy that runs the controller once per deploy, and displays the results

Calvin's Hobbies

@El'endiaStarman clr plz

El'endia Starman

clr?

Oh, color.

Anonymous

7:16 AM

@El'endiaStarman I'm looking at Blitz's website - which version do I want?

El'endia Starman

@Mego Blitz3D.

Anonymous

@El'endiaStarman tanks

Calvin's Hobbies

@El'endiaStarman Spifffy

El'endia Starman

:D

Sparr

code golf to implement the algorithm

later a pop con to make the b/w image that colors the best :)

Anonymous

7:18 AM

^

Calvin's Hobbies

@Sparr I was thinking about that. I bet some fractals would make pretty neat images.

El'endia Starman

@Sparr Hmmm, not a bad idea!

Calvin's Hobbies

Though it might be closed an art contest :/

El'endia Starman

@Calvin'sHobbies: Should I add that maze as another example?

Anonymous

How do I not have DirectPlay :/

Anonymous

7:23 AM

@MartinBüttner glad you're here, we need your opinion. What do you think of pudding and oatmeal (separately, not mixed together)?

El'endia Starman

@Mego Blitz3D install problem?

Anonymous

@El'endiaStarman Not really, it just made me install DirectPlay before it would open

Martin Büttner

@Mego this pudding or this pudding?

El'endia Starman

ah, okay

Anonymous

Which is odd, because my DirectX install is up to date

Anonymous

7:24 AM

@MartinBüttner The one that's good, not the one that's blood

Martin Büttner

yeah, it's not bad? I don't have particularly strong feelings about pudding (or oatmeal).

Anonymous

@El'endiaStarman Where is the image saved?

El'endia Starman

@Mego Same folder as the code.

And the code should be saved to a file. If not, it's somewhere like C:\temp.

Calvin's Hobbies

@MartinBüttner So is this true or not??

2 hours ago, by Calvin's Hobbies

@Mego He wears stoat coats on moat floating boats, eating oats with goats, gloating till he bloats.

@El'endiaStarman I might when I edit it

Anonymous

There it is. It didn't wanna appear for some reason

El'endia Starman

7:30 AM

Well, I could do it now really quickly...

Martin Büttner

@Calvin'sHobbies If it is, then I don't remember it.

Anonymous

El'endia Starman

OOOH.

Anonymous

Blank:

Anonymous

Bad Cat Eye

7:31 AM

Booo boring

Sparr

oooh, codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/63772/…

marbelous is actually competitive!

El'endia Starman

:D

What it looks like when you don't have the white border:

Muy interesante!

Anonymous

El'endia Starman

WOAH.

Anonymous

It's Seriously cool, don't you think?

El'endia Starman

7:37 AM

......... ;)

Anonymous

I have learned to stop worrying and love the ~~bomb~~ puns

Calvin's Hobbies

this page might make neat stuff

^ huge uncolored

Sparr

duramecho.com/Art/RainbowLabyrinths/Mazes/index.html

El'endia Starman

Wow, my code was a lot faster than I expected.

Calvin's Hobbies

?

El'endia Starman

7:46 AM

Lemme try again...

SE's image uploader refuses to work.

Trying Imgur now...

Anonymous

Looks like continents

El'endia Starman

It does...

Calvin's Hobbies

No kidding. I immediately thought how it might be possible to morph this into a soution to Generate Realistic Maps

Anonymous

I should crop out the white borders

Anonymous

7:56 AM

El'endia Starman

Okay, I changed it from one full cycle to half a cycle. This is what I got for the previous example:

@Mego I think that looks even more map-like.

Anonymous

ooh

Anonymous

Can you change it to the other half of the cycle?

Calvin's Hobbies

^

Anonymous

So that you get blues instead of reds?

Anonymous

7:58 AM

Then that would look like a really neat map

Sp3000

Anyone posted the maze thing from Visualising algorithms yet?

Calvin's Hobbies

El'endia Starman

.....HOW.

Calvin's Hobbies

@Mego Just shifted hue in paint.net

El'endia Starman

oh

Calvin's Hobbies

8:01 AM

@Sp3000 from what?

Sp3000

bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms - near the bottom

El'endia Starman

Oh, I think I know what he's taking about.

Yup, that.

Sp3000

Yup that indeed :P

(I was wondering where I saw something similar before and then I remembered)

Anonymous

@Calvin'sHobbies I mean like greens and blues

Anonymous

Like starting on green and going to blue, rather than starting on red and going to green

Calvin's Hobbies

8:03 AM

Anonymous

That

Calvin's Hobbies

It could be the US o.O

Anonymous

Yes

Calvin's Hobbies

kinda

Anonymous

And that people is how you make continents

El'endia Starman

8:03 AM

... :( Ninja'd again...

Anonymous

@El'endiaStarman share the code?

El'endia Starman

@Mego I changed two lines.

dis2# = array(i,j)*180./maxDis+90

If array(i,j) <> 0

TanMath

ooh.. colors! why?

El'endia Starman

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Hue, Hue Everywhere code-golf The Task Given an image that has only black and white pixels and an (x,y) location that's a white pixel, color the white pixels connected to the start based on their distance from the start, bending around corners as needed, and rotating through the color wheel fr...

Calvin's Hobbies

With median noise

TanMath

8:10 AM

cool!

Calvin's Hobbies

with thingies adjusted

starting to look like codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/22326/26997

El'endia Starman

Wow.

Are you doing all this with an image processor?

Anonymous

My favorite: allrgb.com/starry-night

Calvin's Hobbies

@El'endiaStarman Yep

One more, polar inversion:

El'endia Starman

@Mego Wow...

I particularly like this one from the PPCG answer:

Calvin's Hobbies

8:19 AM

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Anonymous

:o

El'endia Starman

BEST ONE YET.

Anonymous

Calvin wins, everyone else can go home now

Calvin's Hobbies

My favorite too :)

Anonymous

Game over everyone

Anonymous

8:25 AM

@AlexA. oh my god somebody made this

Calvin's Hobbies

Inverting the colors is also pretty awesome:

El'endia Starman

sweeet

Anonymous

It's like the 70s are coming back for me

Anonymous

And I wasn't even alive in the 70s

Calvin's Hobbies

9:19 AM

@Mego Watch me

poor quality :/

New Sandboxed Posts

9:59 AM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Optional parentheses In text, parentheses can denote optional asides. These (often intrusive) additions can be read or skipped over, either option giving a valid sentence. Given a string with parentheses, possibly nested, output all possible readings where each parenthesized section may be omitt...

Optimizer

@Calvin'sHobbies That's the wrong watch me. This is the right one:

Silentó - Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae) (Official)

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Optimizer

11:04 AM

(｡•́︿•̀｡)

flawr

Why so sad @Optimizer ?

Optimizer

@flawr I am sad that I could not find a similar happy face smiley

flawr

11:24 AM

Oh boy.

Optimizer

too meta?

flawr

Huehuehue

@Calvin'sHobbies How did you deform it? It looks like f(z) = 1/z.

@Mego This looks darn cool!!!

New Main Posts

12:15 PM

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Q: Tips for golfing in Burlesque

This serves as a catalog for tips related to golfing in Burlesque. Burlesque is a lazy, esoteric programming language. It's mostly used on anarchy golf while popularity on Codegolf is not as high. However, this catalog is intended to be used by people golfing on anarchy golf as well. Please onl...

PhiNotPi

1:24 PM

@Mego There's a KOTH server that I have.

PhiNotPi

1:49 PM

I'm working on revamping my Phigs golfing language project.

Here is a possible example of how it'll work now:

I"str"#X2+7L\^P     stack            explanation
              P     P                fancy print, takes 1 arg (1 -> 0)
             ^P     P ^              exponent, 2 args in, 1 out (2 -> 1)
            \^P     P ^ \            swap top of stack (2 -> 2)
           L\^P     P ^ \ L          lambda (2 -> 1)
          7L\^P     P ^ \ L 7        literal 7, first arg ("input") of lamba (0 -> 1)
           L\^P     P ^ \ L 7        lambda has 1 of 2 args
         + L\^P     P ^ \ L 7 +      add (2 -> 1)

^ x-post from the esolangs room

This would make it not really stack based anymore.

2 3\4+*  stack
      *  *
     +*  * +
    4+*  * + 4
     +*  * + 4
   \ +*  * + 4 \
  3\ +*  * + 4 \ 3
   \ +*  * + 4 \ 3
2  \ +*  * + 4 \ 3 2
   \ +*  * + 4 2 3
     +*  * 6 3
      *  18

Anther example.

I am considering reversing the written order of the program, if people think that makes it more readable.

Rainbolt

Okay so I just found out that we have a thanksgiving "tree" made out of brown and green post it notes, and everyone at the company was asked to write something we are thankful for and stick it onto the tree. I'm going to let you guys decide what I should write.

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TimmyD

2:06 PM

@Rainbolt "I'm thankful for Java, for reminding me that there's always something worse."

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