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The International Obfuscated C Code Contest

2013/endoh4 - Most solid

ASCII solid rotation

← 2013/endoh3 ↑ 2013 ↑ 2013/hou → C code Makefile Inventory ✓

Author:

To build:

    make

If you wish to change the size (see the Author’s remarks below) you can do so with the SIZE variable. For instance you can do:

    make clobber SIZE=50,50 all

but you can also do this directly with the endoh4.sh script as described below.

Bugs and (Mis)features:

The current status of this entry is:

STATUS: INABIAF - please DO NOT fix

For more detailed information see 2013/endoh4 in bugs.html.

To use:

    ./endoh4 < file
    ./endoh4.sh file

The second form is preferable as it will temporarily make the cursor invisible as recommended by the author. If no file is specified in the ./endoh4.sh command line it will feed to the program endoh4.c.

Try:

    ./endoh4.sh cube.txt

Hit ctrl-c to end the program.

The author recommends the use of xterm.

For an example, if you are a football/soccer fan, try:

    ./endoh4.sh solids/archimedian-solid/a11-truncated-icosahedron.txt

You can provide more than one file:

    ./endoh4.sh solids/archimedian-solid/a11-truncated-icosahedron.txt cube.txt

Hit ctrl-c/intr to go to the next file.

If you wish to change the size to 50,50 without passing any arg:

    SIZE=50,50 ./endoh4.sh

Not specifying a file feeds endoh4.c to the program.

Judges’ remarks:

This program is formatted as the net for a tetrahedron (hint: try feeding the program it’s own source code like ./endoh4.sh). When it runs there is an animation for the computation to work out the convex hull.

Author’s remarks:

Spec

This is a convex polyhedron viewer, which:

  1. reads three-dimensional vertices (3N float values) from stdin,
  2. calculates a convex hull of them, and
  3. renders it.

This simple spec involves many details.

(Note that this program does not use math.h.)

Portability

I think it conforms with both C89 and C99. I confirmed that it worked on gcc, clang, and tcc. It should not trigger warnings with -pedantic and -Wextra.

Tips

You may want to use tput to hide the terminal cursor.

    tput civis
    ./endoh4 < cube.txt
    tput cnorm

or

    ./endoh4.sh cube.txt

Bonuses

You can change the screen size. Let the aspect ratio be about 3:1.

    cc -DS=120,40 -o endoh4 endoh4.c

The shape of this code is the geometric net of a regular tetrahedron. So, try:

    ./endoh4 < endoh4.c # or ./endoh4.sh

The solids directory includes various solid data:

I created the files by using the POV-Ray scripts (1 and 2 in Wikipedia. They are copyrighted in CC BY-SA 3.0 by “User:Cyp” and “User:AndrewKepert”.

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