From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby@...>
Date: 2004-12-08T10:16:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Duck images

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 07:00:10 +0900
Florian Frank <flori@nixe.ping.de> wrote:

> Michael DeHaan wrote:
> [...]
> 
> I got an idea...
> 
> -- 
> Florian Frank
> 
> 

I took this to play a bit with golfing and here are my first ever golfs:

# Franks original Version: 186 Bytes
s="\033[2J\033[0;0H          _\n Quack! >(')____,\n         (`
=~~/\nv^v^v^v^v^`---'v^v^v^v^";(1..(1/0.0)).each{|i|s[23,6]=(i%2)==0?"Quack!":"
"*6;s.tr!('>v^^v<','<^vv^>');puts s;sleep 1}

# Shortened and enhanced: 178 Bytes
s="\e[2J\e[0;0H          _\n Quack! >(*)____,\n         (`
=~~/\nv^v^v^v^v^`---'v^v^v^v^";i=0;loop{s[23,6]=(i+=1)%2==0?'Quack!':'
'*6;s.tr!(t="*.>v^<,�",t.reverse);puts s;sleep 1}

# Packed (RLE): 205 Bytes
s="\e[2J\e[0;0H"+" 30_\n 21Quack! >(*)_4,\n 29(` =~2/\nw15`-3'w15\n
w33".gsub(/(.)(\d+)/){$1*$2.to_i}.gsub('w','v^');i=0;loop{s[63,6]=(i+=1)%2==0?
'Quack!':' '*6;s.tr!(t="*.>v^<,�",t.reverse);puts s;sleep 1}

I enhanced the original version to waggle with the tail and blinker with the
eyes. I could shorten the original by immense 8 bytes. I then tried to rle
encode the string, but this resulted only in obfuscation, not in improved
shortness. But in the rle compressed version I could expand the Type's world
immensely without a lot of size penalty. So now Type has a big and even nearly
two dimensional sea to swim while paying only 19 additional bytes.

So it should be clear why type waggles it tail ;)

cheers,

Brian

-- 
Brian Schr�der
http://www.brian-schroeder.de/