Questions tagged [graphical-output]
This challenge involves drawing pictures on a screen or generating image files. For pure ASCII art contests, use [ascii-art] instead. If participants can choose between graphics and ASCII art, use both tags. For images as input, use [image-processing].
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Draw a Regular Reuleaux Polygon
Related: Draw A Reuleaux Triangle!, Draw a regular polygon
A Reuleaux polygon is a curve of constant width made up of circular arcs of constant radius. The most well-known Reuleaux polygon is the ...
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Plot the ground path of a satellite
If you model a satellite as a free point orbiting a body, you can pretty easily see it has 6 degrees of freedom: three for the X, Y, and Z position, and three for the X, Y, and Z velocity. However, ...
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Visually arrange multi-day events on a calendar
The arrangement algorithm
I think I've determined the algorithm that Google Calendar uses to visually arrange day-long and longer events at the top of the "Week" view (you may have an ...
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Draw a Fibonacci Swoosh
Title courtesy of Greg Martin
For this challenge, I'll define an arc of size \$k\$ as a single piece of a sine wave with a length of \$k\$ units and an height of \$\frac{k}{4}\$ units:
And I'll ...
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Displaying Inky the ghost from Pac-Man using ANSI escape codes
Challenge
Display Inky the ghost from Pac-Man using only ANSI escape codes.
Here's a text representation of the image
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Inscribe a maximal regular polygon into a square image
You want to draw a regular polygon but you have limited space! In this challenge, you should draw a polygon with n sides which is as big as possible for a given square container image.
I found ...
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Output an image
Interestingly, although there are challenges that work with images, there is no challenge to simply output an image. This is that challenge
Goal: output an image in the shortest possible code.
Output: ...
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Convert numbers to dice patterns
The way points are assigned on a dice follows a regular pattern, the center dot is present if and only if the number is odd. To represent the even numbers, pairs of dots on opposite sides of the ...
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My eight braille pattern progressive snake spinner
Introduction
I would like to drawn a nice spinner by using eight braille patterns on two lines, drawing a square of 8x8 pixel, for showing a kind of snake growing and reducing:
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Draw the GKMS aperiodic tile
Chaim Goodman-Strauss, Craig Kaplan, Joseph Myers and David Smith found the following simple (both objectively and subjectively) polygon that tiles the plane, but only aperiodically:
Indeed they ...
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Draw Parcly Taxel's cutie mark
I've been a fan of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic for a long time, and very early on I created a pony version of myself also called Parcly Taxel (warning: may be too cute to look at). The symbol ...
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Draw a Gameboy Tile
Description
The Gameboy stores tiles as 2 bit-per-pixel 8x8 images, thus 16 bytes. Every two bytes is a complete row with all of the Low-bits of each pixel in the first byte, and all of the High-bits ...
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Create a triangle whose colors are determined by the bitsums of coordinates
Write a program that, for any \$n\$, generates a triangle made of hexagons as shown, \$2^n\$ to a side. The colors are to be determined as follows.
We may give the triangle barycentric coordinates so ...
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Create a nibble shorthand
I recently stumbled across this image on wikimedia commons. It's a little bit of an information overload at first, but after examining it a bit it shows an interesting number system for writing ...
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I'm Blue, Da ba dee da ba die
Write a program, which outputs I'm Blue, and then Da, Ba, Dee, Da, Ba, Die, forever, the words must be space-seperated in one ...
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