Author:

• Name: Jonathan Hoyle
  Location: US - United States of America (United States)

To build:

    make

To use:

    ./hoyle point ...

Try:

    ./try.sh

Judges’ remarks:

The obfuscation functions at several levels. Note the clever use of use of #defines. The #define do(if,else), for example, is delightful. The code itself contains a bunch of curves designed to throw you off axis. :-)

Author’s remarks:

This application graphs polynomials on a standard Cartesian coordinate system. Polynomials of the form ax^0 + bx^1 + cx^2 + ... are graphed by passing the coefficients a, b, c, etc. as double precision arguments. It allows up to 8 parameters (thus up to x^7).

Points of interest:

• the x axis goes from -32 to +31.
• the y axis auto scales!
• up to 8 coefficients may be passed in.
• the graph will determine direction and use slashes and dashes rather than a simple block of Xs.

For example, to graph y = x^2:

    ./hoyle 0 0 1

Note that:

    ./hoyle 0 0 2

will produce the same graph, since the y-axis is auto scaling.

Primary files

• hoyle.c - entry source code
• Makefile - entry Makefile
• hoyle.orig.c - original source code
• try.sh - script to try entry

Secondary files

• 2004_hoyle.tar.bz2 - download entry tarball
• README.md - markdown source for this web page
• .entry.json - entry summary and manifest in JSON
• .gitignore - list of files that should not be committed under git
• .path - directory path from top level directory
• index.html - this web page

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