• Re: ASCII art from sourcecode as image

    From Eli the Bearded@21:1/5 to colin.randall2@googlemail.com on Mon Oct 11 18:01:36 2021
    XPost: alt.ascii-art

    In alt.ascii-art, colin randall <colin.randall2@googlemail.com> wrote:
    On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 at 9:07:44 AM UTC+1, Harry Mason wrote:

    I'd make a suggestion, but 19 years later it might not help.

    For perl there is Acme::EyeDrops. It doesn't just format the program, it obfuscates it too.

    -- 8< -- cut here -- >8 --
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    eval eval '"'.


    ('#').
    '!'.'/' .('['
    ^'.' ) .('['^'('). ("\["^
    ')')."\/".( '`'|'"').('`'| ')').(
    '`'|'.') .'/'. ( '['^'+').('`'|'%').('['
    ^')').('`'|',').('{' ^'[').'-'.('['^',').('!'
    ^'+').('['^'.').('['^ '(').('`'|'%').('{'^('[')).(
    '['^'(').('['^'/').( '['^')').('`'|')').('`'|'#').("\["^
    ('/')). ';'.('!'^'+').('['^'+').('['^"\)").(
    '`'|')').('`'|'.').('['^'/').('{'^'[').'\\'.'"'.('`'|'(').(
    '`'|'%').('`'|',').('`'|',').('`'|'/').','.('{'^'[').('['^','
    ).('`'|'/').('['^')').('`'|',').('`'|'$').'\\'.'\\'.('`'|"\.").
    '\\'.'"'.';'.('!'^'+').'"';$:='.'^'~';$~='@'|'(';$^=')'^'[';$/=
    '`'|'.';$_='('^'}';$,='`'|'!';$\=')'^'}';$:='.'^'~';$~='@'|'(';
    $^=')'^'[';$/='`'|'.';$_='('^'}';$,='`'|'!';$\=')'^'}';$:="\."^
    '~';$~='@'|'(';$^=')'^'[';$/='`'|'.';$_='('^'}';$,='`'|('!');$\=
    ')'^'}';$:='.'^'~';$~='@'|'(';$^=')'^'[';$/='`'|'.';$_='('^'}';
    $,='`'|'!';$\=')'^'}';$:='.'^'~';$~='@'|'(';$^=')'^'[' ;($/)=
    '`'|'.';$_='('^'}';$,='`'|'!';$\=')'^'}';$:='.'^'~'; ($~)=
    '@'|'(';$^=')'^'[';$/='`'|'.';$_='('^'}';$,=('`')| "\!";
    $\=')'^'}';$:='.'^'~';$~='@'|'(';$^=')' ^'[';$/= '`'|
    (( '.'));$_='('^'}';$,='`'|"\!";$\= ')'^'}'; ($:)
    ='.'^"\~"; $~='@'|'(' ;$^=')'^ '[';$/= '`'
    |('.');$_= '('^'}';$, ='`'|'!' ;$\=')' ^+
    "\}";$:= '.'^'~';$~ =('@')| '(';$^
    =')'^'[' ;$/=('`')| '.';$_= "\("^
    '}';$,= '`'|'!';$\ ="\)"^ '}';$:
    =('.')^ "\~";$~= ('@')| "\(";
    $^=')' ^"\["; $/='`' |'.';
    ($_)= ('(')^ '}';$, ='`'|
    "\!"; $\=')'^ '}';$: ='.'
    ^'~'; $~='@'|'(' ;$^=
    ')'^ "\[";$/= '`'|
    '.'; $_=('(')^ '}';
    ($,) ='`'|'!';$\ =')'^
    "\}"; $:='.'^'~';$~= ('@')|
    "\("; $^="\)"^ '['; $/='`'|
    '.';$_= '('^'}';
    $,="\`"| '!';#;
    -- 8< -- cut here -- >8 --

    Thats an interesting piece of art
    i dont have perl installed and i'd be curious to know what its output
    looks like

    It just prints "hello, world".

    There are a bunch more examples in the documentation for Acme::EyeDrops,
    but trying a few, I was unable to get them to produce output (other
    than errors[*]). Chances are the output ASCII art code is rather
    sensitive to changes in Perl syntax.

    https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::EyeDrops

    [*] Example, with Perl v5.26.1
    Eval-group not allowed at runtime, use re 'eval' in regex
    m/(?{eval"\$~=pop||'';open\$%;y,!-~,#,,s,(.).,\$+,gs,\$~&&(\$_=reverse)for\@~=grep\$|--,('')x18,<0>;\@;=map~~reverse,re.../
    at /tmp/p line 48.
    For the similarly shapped "camel.pl"

    Elijah
    ------
    has not tried using all the ancient versions of Perl he has access to

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  • From Colin Randall@21:1/5 to Eli the Bearded on Sun Oct 17 19:35:35 2021
    XPost: alt.ascii-art

    On 11/10/2021 19:01, Eli the Bearded wrote:
    In alt.ascii-art, colin randall <colin.randall2@googlemail.com> wrote:
    On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 at 9:07:44 AM UTC+1, Harry Mason wrote:

    I'd make a suggestion, but 19 years later it might not help.

    For perl there is Acme::EyeDrops. It doesn't just format the program, it
    obfuscates it too.

    -- 8< -- cut here -- >8 --
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    eval eval '"'.


    ('#').
    '!'.'/' .('['
    ^'.' ) .('['^'('). ("\["^
    ')')."\/".( '`'|'"').('`'| ')').(
    '`'|'.') .'/'. ( '['^'+').('`'|'%').('['
    ^')').('`'|',').('{' ^'[').'-'.('['^',').('!'
    ^'+').('['^'.').('['^ '(').('`'|'%').('{'^('[')).(
    '['^'(').('['^'/').( '['^')').('`'|')').('`'|'#').("\["^
    ('/')). ';'.('!'^'+').('['^'+').('['^"\)").(
    '`'|')').('`'|'.').('['^'/').('{'^'[').'\\'.'"'.('`'|'(').(
    '`'|'%').('`'|',').('`'|',').('`'|'/').','.('{'^'[').('['^','
    ).('`'|'/').('['^')').('`'|',').('`'|'$').'\\'.'\\'.('`'|"\.").
    '\\'.'"'.';'.('!'^'+').'"';$:='.'^'~';$~='@'|'(';$^=')'^'[';$/=
    '`'|'.';$_='('^'}';$,='`'|'!';$\=')'^'}';$:='.'^'~';$~='@'|'(';
    $^=')'^'[';$/='`'|'.';$_='('^'}';$,='`'|'!';$\=')'^'}';$:="\."^
    '~';$~='@'|'(';$^=')'^'[';$/='`'|'.';$_='('^'}';$,='`'|('!');$\=
    ')'^'}';$:='.'^'~';$~='@'|'(';$^=')'^'[';$/='`'|'.';$_='('^'}';
    $,='`'|'!';$\=')'^'}';$:='.'^'~';$~='@'|'(';$^=')'^'[' ;($/)=
    '`'|'.';$_='('^'}';$,='`'|'!';$\=')'^'}';$:='.'^'~'; ($~)=
    '@'|'(';$^=')'^'[';$/='`'|'.';$_='('^'}';$,=('`')| "\!";
    $\=')'^'}';$:='.'^'~';$~='@'|'(';$^=')' ^'[';$/= '`'|
    (( '.'));$_='('^'}';$,='`'|"\!";$\= ')'^'}'; ($:)
    ='.'^"\~"; $~='@'|'(' ;$^=')'^ '[';$/= '`'
    |('.');$_= '('^'}';$, ='`'|'!' ;$\=')' ^+
    "\}";$:= '.'^'~';$~ =('@')| '(';$^
    =')'^'[' ;$/=('`')| '.';$_= "\("^
    '}';$,= '`'|'!';$\ ="\)"^ '}';$:
    =('.')^ "\~";$~= ('@')| "\(";
    $^=')' ^"\["; $/='`' |'.';
    ($_)= ('(')^ '}';$, ='`'|
    "\!"; $\=')'^ '}';$: ='.'
    ^'~'; $~='@'|'(' ;$^=
    ')'^ "\[";$/= '`'|
    '.'; $_=('(')^ '}';
    ($,) ='`'|'!';$\ =')'^
    "\}"; $:='.'^'~';$~= ('@')|
    "\("; $^="\)"^ '['; $/='`'|
    '.';$_= '('^'}';
    $,="\`"| '!';#;
    -- 8< -- cut here -- >8 --

    Thats an interesting piece of art
    i dont have perl installed and i'd be curious to know what its output
    looks like

    It just prints "hello, world".

    There are a bunch more examples in the documentation for Acme::EyeDrops,
    but trying a few, I was unable to get them to produce output (other
    than errors[*]). Chances are the output ASCII art code is rather
    sensitive to changes in Perl syntax.

    https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::EyeDrops

    [*] Example, with Perl v5.26.1
    Eval-group not allowed at runtime, use re 'eval' in regex
    m/(?{eval"\$~=pop||'';open\$%;y,!-~,#,,s,(.).,\$+,gs,\$~&&(\$_=reverse)for\@~=grep\$|--,('')x18,<0>;\@;=map~~reverse,re.../
    at /tmp/p line 48.
    For the similarly shapped "camel.pl"

    Elijah
    ------
    has not tried using all the ancient versions of Perl he has access to

    ok ... thanks for that ... sorry to have put you to the trouble ...

    so it was just an example of a "caligram" using the Acme::EyeDrops tool

    if it had been C or Bash or even Pascal i would've been able to read it
    ... hadn't realized that Perl was so 'parentheses' heavy ... kind of
    looks like it was made with a bracket-generator :)

    --
    .
    ._!__ __ __
    / _\/_ |_ \!_
    / / 7 / /|
    \ \_ _/ / \ .
    \_//__/|_\_\!_.
    |

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  • From Eli the Bearded@21:1/5 to colin.randall2@gmail.com on Mon Oct 18 23:20:00 2021
    XPost: alt.ascii-art

    In comp.lang.perl.misc, Colin Randall <colin.randall2@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 11/10/2021 19:01, Eli the Bearded wrote:
    has not tried using all the ancient versions of Perl he has access to
    ok ... thanks for that ... sorry to have put you to the trouble ...

    That level of effort was no trouble. Digging out Perl v1.0.0 or the like
    is doable, but trouble.

    so it was just an example of a "caligram" using the Acme::EyeDrops tool

    if it had been C or Bash or even Pascal i would've been able to read it
    ... hadn't realized that Perl was so 'parentheses' heavy ... kind of
    looks like it was made with a bracket-generator :)

    Perl is _extremely_ flexible with syntax, so you can write stuff using
    either all punctuation or virtually no punctuation. Perl got a very
    bad reputation for that ("write-only software") and Python reaped the
    reward.

    I know Perl well, and if I spent time I could figure out what how that
    camel ASCII art works, but it's not immediately obvious to me.

    (I don't know Python well, but I can do some basic work in it.)

    There used to be a tradition of writing short scripts that show-off
    esoteric Perl knowledge and just print "just another perl hacker" or
    similar. These went a long way to furthering the "Perl is hard to
    read" reputation. I wrote this one in the late 1990s as an example of
    "no punctuation":

    perl -e 's Y Yreverse q N ny pm srekcah lrep kroy wen emosNYex and s Pmp ynP
    P and s MsMjust sMx and print and s NYPM MPYN Nis or reverse and print q qq'

    It prints "just some new york perl hackers " (trailing space is in output
    but is just there for getting the two lines of code to be the same
    length). It includes "NY" "PM" in a bunch of forms, referencing the New
    York Perl Mongers group.

    I've got some others in my old ~/sigs collection, two of which may be interesting here:

    $ perl ~/sigs/japh.I
    _ _ _ _ _
    | |_ _ ___| |_ / \ _ __ ___ | |_| |__ ___ _ __
    _ | | | | / __| __| / _ \ | '_ \ / _ \| __| '_ \ / _ \ '__|
    | |_| | |_| \__ \ |_ / ___ \| | | | (_) | |_| | | | __/ |
    \___/ \__,_|___/\__| /_/ \_\_| |_|\___/ \__|_| |_|\___|_|

    ____ _ _ _ _
    | _ \ ___ _ __| | | | | | __ _ ___| | _____ _ __
    | |_) / _ \ '__| | | |_| |/ _` |/ __| |/ / _ \ '__|
    | __/ __/ | | | | _ | (_| | (__| < __/ |
    |_| \___|_| |_| |_| |_|\__,_|\___|_|\_\___|_|

    $ cat ~/sigs/japh.I
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    use Shell;
    print(figlet(qw(Just Another Perl Hacker)));
    __END__
    $ perl ~/sigs/stpat.pl
    Elijah




    mmm mmm
    MMMMVMMMM
    VMMMMMMMV
    mmmmm VMMMMMV mmmmm
    JMMMMML VMMMV JMMMMML
    VMMMMMMmmJMMMLmmMMMMMMV
    :MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM:
    1MMMMMM"""JP""""MMMMMM1
    ?MMMMMP V: ?MMMMMV
    """"" 1L """""
    "P





    $ cat ~/sigs/stpat.pl
    sub e{printf"%c",shift}for($b=141596885;$b>8;$b>>=4){&e(97-($b>>22)+($b&15))}$ _="}X/+c)cyX/*494yX/*979yX+e*959*eyX*I5Q*939*I5QyX*96bI3Qb69yX*!777!yX*Y6kIql" ."6YyX*A5q+9!,A59yX+m,YQ-myX/-iq~y";s:X:///:g;@b=/./g;$_=qq'Eli!: MV?JL1m"P\n' ;@e=/./sig;for($a=0;$a<128;){$b=ord$b[$a++];for(;$b&7;){&e(ord$e[($b-->>3)])}} $

    Elijah
    ------
    reused some tricks from the C animation sig in the stpat one

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  • From Christian Garbs@21:1/5 to Eli the Bearded on Sat Oct 23 18:58:05 2021
    XPost: alt.ascii-art

    Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:

    $ cat ~/sigs/japh.I
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    use Shell;
    print(figlet(qw(Just Another Perl Hacker)));
    __END__

    UUOP ;-)

    I finally found an old one of mine:

    ($a,$b,$c)=localtime time;sub a{int(31+sin($_[0]/57)*$_[1]).int(#mitch@cgarbs.de
    31-cos($_[0]/57)*$_[1])}for(3..50){$i{a($b*6,$_/3)}++;$i{a($c*30%360+$b/2,$_/5)}
    ++}for(0..359){$i{a($_,19)}++;$i{a($_,16)}++if!($_%30)}for$y(6..26){for(11..52){
    print((' ','"','o','8')[(exists$i{$_.$y*2})*2+exists$i{$_.($y*2-1)}])}print"\n"}

    I won't post the output, try to guess ;-)

    Hint: The output changes regularly, you could run it in a loop like
    "while perl the_script.pl; do sleep 1m; done".

    This still runs with a current Perl, even with -w enabled.

    Best regards
    Christian
    --
    ....Christian.Garbs....................................https://www.cgarbs.de Murphy's Laws of Combat:
    20. Never forget that your weapon is made by the lowest bidder.

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  • From Colin Randall@21:1/5 to Christian Garbs on Fri Oct 29 03:20:46 2021
    XPost: alt.ascii-art

    On 23/10/2021 19:58, Christian Garbs wrote:
    Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:

    $ cat ~/sigs/japh.I
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    use Shell;
    print(figlet(qw(Just Another Perl Hacker)));
    __END__

    UUOP ;-)

    I finally found an old one of mine:

    ($a,$b,$c)=localtime time;sub a{int(31+sin($_[0]/57)*$_[1]).int(#mitch@cgarbs.de
    31-cos($_[0]/57)*$_[1])}for(3..50){$i{a($b*6,$_/3)}++;$i{a($c*30%360+$b/2,$_/5)}
    ++}for(0..359){$i{a($_,19)}++;$i{a($_,16)}++if!($_%30)}for$y(6..26){for(11..52){
    print((' ','"','o','8')[(exists$i{$_.$y*2})*2+exists$i{$_.($y*2-1)}])}print"\n"}

    I won't post the output, try to guess ;-)

    Hint: The output changes regularly, you could run it in a loop like
    "while perl the_script.pl; do sleep 1m; done".

    This still runs with a current Perl, even with -w enabled.

    Best regards
    Christian

    a guess:
    a circular motion of an email-addy leaving a trail


    the following looks like it could be the original camel?

    originally posted by Philip Taylor:
    And here's another Perl camel, copied from http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/misc/japh :

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    use strict;

    $_='ev
    al("seek\040D
    ATA,0, 0;");foreach(1..3)
    {<DATA>;}my @camel1hump;my$camel;
    my$Camel ;while( <DATA>){$_=sprintf("%-6
    9s",$_);my@dromedary 1=split(//);if(defined($
    _=<DATA>)){@camel1hum p=split(//);}while(@dromeda
    ry1){my$camel1hump=0 ;my$CAMEL=3;if(defined($_=shif
    t(@dromedary1 ))&&/\S/){$camel1hump+=1<<$CAMEL;}
    $CAMEL--;if(d efined($_=shift(@dromedary1))&&/\S/){
    $camel1hump+=1 <<$CAMEL;}$CAMEL--;if(defined($_=shift(
    @camel1hump))&&/\S/){$camel1hump+=1<<$CAMEL;}$CAMEL--;if(
    defined($_=shift(@camel1hump))&&/\S/){$camel1hump+=1<<$CAME
    L;;}$camel.=(split(//,"\040..m`{/J\047\134}L^7FX"))[$camel1h
    ump];}$camel.="\n";}@camel1hump=split(/\n/,$camel);foreach(@
    camel1hump){chomp;$Camel=$_;y/LJF7\173\175`\047/\061\062\063\
    064\065\066\067\070/;y/12345678/JL7F\175\173\047`/;$_=reverse;
    print"$_\040$Camel\n";}foreach(@camel1hump){chomp;$Camel=$_;y
    /LJF7\173\175`\047/12345678/;y/12345678/JL7F\175\173\0 47`/;
    $_=reverse;print"\040$_$Camel\n";}';;s/\s*//g;;eval; eval
    ("seek\040DATA,0,0;");undef$/;$_=<DATA>;s/\s*//g;( );;s
    ;^.*_;;;map{eval"print\"$_\"";}/.{4}/g; __DATA__ \124
    \1 50\145\040\165\163\145\040\157\1 46\040\1 41\0
    40\143\141 \155\145\1 54\040\1 51\155\ 141
    \147\145\0 40\151\156 \040\141 \163\16 3\
    157\143\ 151\141\16 4\151\1 57\156
    \040\167 \151\164\1 50\040\ 120\1
    45\162\ 154\040\15 1\163\ 040\14
    1\040\1 64\162\1 41\144 \145\
    155\14 1\162\ 153\04 0\157
    \146\ 040\11 7\047\ 122\1
    45\15 1\154\1 54\171 \040
    \046\ 012\101\16 3\16
    3\15 7\143\15 1\14
    1\16 4\145\163 \054
    \040 \111\156\14 3\056
    \040\ 125\163\145\14 4\040\
    167\1 51\164\1 50\0 40\160\
    145\162 \155\151
    \163\163 \151\1
    57\156\056


    --
    .
    ._!__ __ __
    / _\/_ |_ \!_
    / / 7 / /|
    \ \_ _/ / \ .
    \_//__/|_\_\!_.
    |

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  • From Colin Randall@21:1/5 to Colin Randall on Fri Oct 29 08:46:45 2021
    XPost: alt.ascii-art

    On 29/10/2021 03:20, Colin Randall wrote:
    On 23/10/2021 19:58, Christian Garbs wrote:
    Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:

    $ cat ~/sigs/japh.I
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    use Shell;
    print(figlet(qw(Just Another Perl Hacker)));
    __END__

    UUOP ;-)

    I finally found an old one of mine:

    ($a,$b,$c)=localtime time;sub a{int(31+sin($_[0]/57)*$_[1]).int(#mitch@cgarbs.de
    31-cos($_[0]/57)*$_[1])}for(3..50){$i{a($b*6,$_/3)}++;$i{a($c*30%360+$b/2,$_/5)}
    ++}for(0..359){$i{a($_,19)}++;$i{a($_,16)}++if!($_%30)}for$y(6..26){for(11..52){
    print((' ','"','o','8')[(exists$i{$_.$y*2})*2+exists$i{$_.($y*2-1)}])}print"\n"}

    I won't post the output, try to guess ;-)

    Hint: The output changes regularly, you could run it in a loop like
    "while perl the_script.pl; do sleep 1m; done".

    This still runs with a current Perl, even with -w enabled.

    Best regards
    Christian

    a guess:
      a circular motion of an email-addy leaving a trail


    the following looks like it could be the original camel?

    originally posted by Philip Taylor:
    And here's another Perl camel, copied from http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/misc/japh :

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    use strict;

                                               $_='ev
                                           al("seek\040D
               ATA,0,                  0;");foreach(1..3)
           {<DATA>;}my               @camel1hump;my$camel;
      my$Camel  ;while(             <DATA>){$_=sprintf("%-6 9s",$_);my@dromedary           1=split(//);if(defined($ _=<DATA>)){@camel1hum        p=split(//);}while(@dromeda
     ry1){my$camel1hump=0      ;my$CAMEL=3;if(defined($_=shif
            t(@dromedary1    ))&&/\S/){$camel1hump+=1<<$CAMEL;}
           $CAMEL--;if(d   efined($_=shift(@dromedary1))&&/\S/){
          $camel1hump+=1  <<$CAMEL;}$CAMEL--;if(defined($_=shift(
         @camel1hump))&&/\S/){$camel1hump+=1<<$CAMEL;}$CAMEL--;if(
         defined($_=shift(@camel1hump))&&/\S/){$camel1hump+=1<<$CAME
         L;;}$camel.=(split(//,"\040..m`{/J\047\134}L^7FX"))[$camel1h
          ump];}$camel.="\n";}@camel1hump=split(/\n/,$camel);foreach(@
          camel1hump){chomp;$Camel=$_;y/LJF7\173\175`\047/\061\062\063\
          064\065\066\067\070/;y/12345678/JL7F\175\173\047`/;$_=reverse;
           print"$_\040$Camel\n";}foreach(@camel1hump){chomp;$Camel=$_;y
            /LJF7\173\175`\047/12345678/;y/12345678/JL7F\175\173\0 47`/;
             $_=reverse;print"\040$_$Camel\n";}';;s/\s*//g;;eval;   eval
               ("seek\040DATA,0,0;");undef$/;$_=<DATA>;s/\s*//g;(   );;s
                 ;^.*_;;;map{eval"print\"$_\"";}/.{4}/g; __DATA__   \124
                   \1   50\145\040\165\163\145\040\157\1 46\040\1  41\0
                        40\143\141  \155\145\1 54\040\1   51\155\  141
                        \147\145\0  40\151\156 \040\141    \163\16 3\
                         157\143\   151\141\16  4\151\1     57\156
                         \040\167  \151\164\1   50\040\      120\1
                         45\162\   154\040\15    1\163\      040\14
                         1\040\1   64\162\1      41\144       \145\
                         155\14    1\162\       153\04        0\157
                          \146\     040\11     7\047\         122\1
                          45\15      1\154\1  54\171          \040
                          \046\         012\101\16            3\16
                          3\15           7\143\15             1\14
                          1\16            4\145\163           \054
                         \040            \111\156\14         3\056
                        \040\         125\163\145\14         4\040\
                        167\1        51\164\1  50\0         40\160\
                      145\162                              \155\151
                    \163\163                                \151\1
                  57\156\056


    [begin script output]
    mJXXLm. .mJXXLm
    JXXXXXXXXL. JXXLm. .mJXXL .JXXXXXXXXL
    {XXXXXXXXXXX. JXXXmXXXXm mXXXXmXXXL .XXXXXXXXXXX}
    .XXXXXXXXXXXXXL. {XXXXXXXXXF 7XXXXXXXXX} .JXXXXXXXXXXXXX.
    JXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL.`XXXXXX. .XXXXXX'.JXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL
    JXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXmXXXXXXX. .XXXXXXXmXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL
    .XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX} {XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.
    .XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.
    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXF 7XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    XX'7XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXF 7XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXF`XX
    XX {XXXFXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXF' `7XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX7XXX} XX
    `X}{XXX'7XXXFXXXXX^XXXXX `' `' XXXXX^XXXXX7XXXF`XXX}{X'
    `'XXX' {XXX'XXXXX 7XXXF 7XXXF XXXXX`XXX} `XXX`'
    .XX} {XXF {XXXX}`XXX} {XXX'{XXXX} 7XX} {XX.
    {XX `XXL `7XX} 7XX} {XXF {XXF' JXX' XX}
    `XX `XXL mXXF {XX XX} 7XXm JXX' XX'
    XX 7XXXF `XX XX' 7XXXF XX
    XX. JXXXX. 7X. .XF .XXXXL .XX
    {XXL 7XF7XXX. {XX XX} .XXXF7XF JXX}
    `XXX' `XXXm mXXX' `XXX'
    ^^^^^ ^^^^^
    .mJXXLm mJXXLm.
    .mJXXL .JXXXXXXXXL JXXXXXXXXL. JXXLm.
    mXXXXmXXXL .XXXXXXXXXXX} {XXXXXXXXXXX. JXXXmXXXXm
    7XXXXXXXXX} .JXXXXXXXXXXXXX. .XXXXXXXXXXXXXL. {XXXXXXXXXF
    .XXXXXX'.JXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL JXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL.`XXXXXX.
    .XXXXXXXmXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL JXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXmXXXXXXX.
    {XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. .XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX}
    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. .XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    7XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXF
    7XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXF`XX XX'7XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXF
    `7XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX7XXX} XX XX {XXXFXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXF'
    `' XXXXX^XXXXX7XXXF`XXX}{X' `X}{XXX'7XXXFXXXXX^XXXXX `'
    7XXXF XXXXX`XXX} `XXX`' `'XXX' {XXX'XXXXX 7XXXF
    {XXX'{XXXX} 7XX} {XX. .XX} {XXF {XXXX}`XXX}
    {XXF {XXF' JXX' XX} {XX `XXL `7XX} 7XX}
    XX} 7XXm JXX' XX' `XX `XXL mXXF {XX
    XX' 7XXXF XX XX 7XXXF `XX
    .XF .XXXXL .XX XX. JXXXX. 7X.
    XX} .XXXF7XF JXX} {XXL 7XF7XXX. {XX
    mXXX' `XXX' `XXX' `XXXm
    ^^^^^ ^^^^^

    And all the camels are the same shape as the picture on the front of the
    book Programming Perl which, according to the book's Colophon, is "a
    camel (one-hump dromedary)"...

    ... so no i know

    --
    .
    ._!__ __ __
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    / / 7 / /|
    \ \_ _/ / \ .
    \_//__/|_\_\!_.
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  • From A.T. Murray@21:1/5 to Eli the Bearded on Wed Nov 10 06:06:59 2021
    On Monday, October 11, 2021 at 11:01:39 AM UTC-7, Eli the Bearded wrote:
    In alt.ascii-art, colin randall <colin.r...@googlemail.com> wrote:
    On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 at 9:07:44 AM UTC+1, Harry Mason wrote:

    I'd make a suggestion, but 19 years later it might not help.

    For perl there is Acme::EyeDrops. It doesn't just format the program, it obfuscates it too.

    -- 8< -- cut here -- >8 --
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    eval eval '"'.


    ('#').
    '!'.'/' .('['
    ^'.' ) .('['^'('). ("\["^
    ')')."\/".( '`'|'"').('`'| ')').(
    '`'|'.') .'/'. ( '['^'+').('`'|'%').('['
    ^')').('`'|',').('{' ^'[').'-'.('['^',').('!'
    ^'+').('['^'.').('['^ '(').('`'|'%').('{'^('[')).(
    '['^'(').('['^'/').( '['^')').('`'|')').('`'|'#').("\["^
    ('/')). ';'.('!'^'+').('['^'+').('['^"\)").( '`'|')').('`'|'.').('['^'/').('{'^'[').'\\'.'"'.('`'|'(').( '`'|'%').('`'|',').('`'|',').('`'|'/').','.('{'^'[').('['^',' ).('`'|'/').('['^')').('`'|',').('`'|'$').'\\'.'\\'.('`'|"\."). '\\'.'"'.';'.('!'^'+').'"';$:='.'^'~';$~='@'|'(';$^=')'^'[';$/= '`'|'.';$_='('^'}';$,='`'|'!';$\=')'^'}';$:='.'^'~';$~='@'|'('; $^=')'^'[';$/='`'|'.';$_='('^'}';$,='`'|'!';$\=')'^'}';$:="\."^ '~';$~='@'|'(';$^=')'^'[';$/='`'|'.';$_='('^'}';$,='`'|('!');$\= ')'^'}';$:='.'^'~';$~='@'|'(';$^=')'^'[';$/='`'|'.';$_='('^'}'; $,='`'|'!';$\=')'^'}';$:='.'^'~';$~='@'|'(';$^=')'^'[' ;($/)= '`'|'.';$_='('^'}';$,='`'|'!';$\=')'^'}';$:='.'^'~'; ($~)= '@'|'(';$^=')'^'[';$/='`'|'.';$_='('^'}';$,=('`')| "\!"; $\=')'^'}';$:='.'^'~';$~='@'|'(';$^=')' ^'[';$/= '`'|
    (( '.'));$_='('^'}';$,='`'|"\!";$\= ')'^'}'; ($:)
    ='.'^"\~"; $~='@'|'(' ;$^=')'^ '[';$/= '`'
    |('.');$_= '('^'}';$, ='`'|'!' ;$\=')' ^+
    "\}";$:= '.'^'~';$~ =('@')| '(';$^
    =')'^'[' ;$/=('`')| '.';$_= "\("^
    '}';$,= '`'|'!';$\ ="\)"^ '}';$:
    =('.')^ "\~";$~= ('@')| "\(";
    $^=')' ^"\["; $/='`' |'.';
    ($_)= ('(')^ '}';$, ='`'|
    "\!"; $\=')'^ '}';$: ='.'
    ^'~'; $~='@'|'(' ;$^=
    ')'^ "\[";$/= '`'|
    '.'; $_=('(')^ '}';
    ($,) ='`'|'!';$\ =')'^
    "\}"; $:='.'^'~';$~= ('@')|
    "\("; $^="\)"^ '['; $/='`'|
    '.';$_= '('^'}';
    $,="\`"| '!';#;
    -- 8< -- cut here -- >8 --

    Thats an interesting piece of art
    i dont have perl installed and i'd be curious to know what its output
    looks like

    It just prints "hello, world".

    There are a bunch more examples in the documentation for Acme::EyeDrops,
    but trying a few, I was unable to get them to produce output (other
    than errors[*]). Chances are the output ASCII art code is rather
    sensitive to changes in Perl syntax.

    https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::EyeDrops

    [*] Example, with Perl v5.26.1
    Eval-group not allowed at runtime, use re 'eval' in regex m/(?{eval"\$~=pop||'';open\$%;y,!-~,#,,s,(.).,\$+,gs,\$~&&(\$_=reverse)for\@~=grep\$|--,('')x18,<0>;\@;=map~~reverse,re.../
    at /tmp/p line 48.
    For the similarly shapped "camel.pl"

    Elijah
    ------
    has not tried using all the ancient versions of Perl he has access to

    http://ai.neocities.org/RoboMind.html -- ASCII art of a Robot AI Mind in Perl

    Mentifex
    --
    https://cyborg.blogspot.com -- Cyborg weblog https://ai.neocities.org/theory.html -- How the Mind Works https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007ZI66FS -- The Art of the Meme https://medium.com/tag/mentifex/archive

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  • From gamo@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 12 10:05:42 2021
    El 10/11/21 a las 15:06, A.T. Murray escribió:

    http://ai.neocities.org/RoboMind.html -- ASCII art of a Robot AI Mind in Perl

    A good graph, but be careful not to go all the way down to reproduce
    1) metal issues (most obvious thing)
    2) temporal weakness which affects decisions or the decision proccess
    3) obsessions (maybe love is a kind of positive one)
    4) cognitive limitations
    et cetera

    And as a matter of design, how do you implement brain plasticity?

    --
    http://gamo.sdf-eu.org/
    perl -E 'say "Error: Robotic psycho captcha not ok"'

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  • From A.T. Murray@21:1/5 to gamo on Fri Nov 12 07:33:11 2021
    On Friday, November 12, 2021 at 1:56:25 AM UTC-8, gamo wrote:
    El 10/11/21 a las 15:06, A.T. Murray escribió:
    http://ai.neocities.org/RoboMind.html -- ASCII art of a Robot AI Mind in Perl
    A good graph, but be careful not to go all the way down to reproduce
    1) mental issues (most obvious thing)
    2) temporal weakness which affects decisions or the decision process
    | 3) obsessions (maybe love is a kind of positive one)
    "Comes love, nothing can be done."
    4) cognitive limitations
    et cetera

    | And as a matter of design, how do you implement brain plasticity?

    If "brain plasticity" is an ability of the AI Mind to learn and grow over time, then it is implemented with features like the NewConcept mind-module.

    Mentifex
    --
    https://cyborg.blogspot.com -- Cyborg weblog
    https://ai.neocities.org/PMPJ.html -- Perl Mind Programming Journal https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007ZI66FS -- The Art of the Meme https://medium.com/tag/mentifex/archive

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  • From gamo@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 14 22:05:20 2021
    El 12/11/21 a las 16:33, A.T. Murray escribió:
    If "brain plasticity" is an ability of the AI Mind to learn and grow over time, then it is implemented with features like the NewConcept mind-module.

    Mentifex

    You can call it metiflex.pm


    --
    http://gamo.sdf-eu.org/
    perl -E 'say "Error: The flat tax is not flat"'

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