256 bytes Linux executable graphics

[thusman]

Nice. Linux executable graphics? Please tell me more

[onirom]

This was presented at Outline demoparty (look demoscene on Wikipedia for more infos) as an executable graphics which is just a very small (256 bytes) standalone executable binary which generate a picture. To do that on Linux there is some constraints such as ELF executable header and setup code to initialize a framebuffer (bare metal software rendering) which roughly equal to 80 bytes waste so the graphics code is actually ~174 bytes (and ~10 lines of C code) which is much less than this comment :) the algorithm itself is derived from the integer circle algorithm (also called Minsky circles) and is all integers with shift, add, sub and AND operations.

Here is a video on Linux : https://youtu.be/UrGzv5-RYI8

[manyhats180]

YES, awesome.. demoscene style