Quote Originally Posted by Darkhog View Post
Why size req? Because I want to see how much code you can squeeze into 300kb (combined sources and exe). You can add as many "bells and whistles" as you like as long as it performs task. Drawing this image doesn't need to be ONLY thing your code will perform, but it must be ONE OF THEM.
We meant empty window application with no bells and whistles, that take more than 1Mb. To display image, you do need to create a window right, or are we allowed to call Windows specific command, to for example launch Windows Photo Viewer on saved image?

About the image complexity (120x120), it would be required to write a simple additional tool which generates some code. By the code i don't mean directly a pixelmap, but it can be different representation of it. I can't imagine anyone reading all the pixel-coordinates by hand.

I like similar challenges, but this doesn't seem thought through. Is the intention of this contest, to find out all possible ways to make small-executable visual demos?