QLOCK – a tiny program (321 bytes) by Martin Kleppe that shows the time, while also displaying its own source code. Learn more here and run it here. We featured a similar work by Kleppe 10 years ago.
(This is called a quine, but here it’s also called code calligram)
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The cover of the French Le Charivari magazine 27 February, 1834. It is pear-shaped because the magazine’s owner, Charles Philipon, had been taken to court for depicting king Louis-Philippe I as a rotting pear. Ironically, the king had just previously proclaimed the freedom of the press and lost the case.
Image and info, via Wikipedia
Self-portraits rendered in the code used to generate the images, by Eric Furst, 2024 (aka Eric Fischer). More details here.
More code calligrams.
A paper that is both a text and an executable program that plays music. Made by Tom 7 in his custom C compiler. More info here.
Code displaying 42 computes Code displaying 42 that outputs Equation outputting 42: http://ift.tt/1dSWdc6
A piece of code shaped like a donut renders a spinning donut in ASCII. Made by Andy Sloane:
via prostheticknowledge (with more explanations and links)
More code calligrams here.
Hebrew ASCII from the 1200s. Or micrography, as it’s also called.
On this page, the scribe has identified himself as Eliezer son of Samuel by creating a calligram in the shape of the letters of his own name. The calligram (lines of text of unequal length written in parallel rows and forming a design) is a continuation of the text of the previous page concerning the laws of the holiday of Sukkot.