Darkhog's challenge: Obfuscated drawing

[pstudio]

You CANNOT store it in anyway in program, it must be procedurally generated.

I take that you mean that you cannot store the image as an exact bitmap? Obviously the image must be represented in the code somehow.

Binary AND source code COMBINED cannot exceed 300kb.

You can use any pascal-capable graphic library, including ports of C libraries. Be advised though, that any of DLLs used aside of stuff that comes with WinAPI or standard Linux APIs counts to size limit, even if it isn't written by you.

Deadline: Nov, 16th.

As mentioned by other users this seems as a strict requirement. Why even put a size limit? As I see it the interesting part is to generate the image and apparently make your code unreadable.

[Darkhog]

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.

[User137]

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?

[Ñuño Martínez]

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?

The executable of the biggest Allegro.pas 4.4.4 example (ex3d, that shows how to create and display a bunch or 3D textured cubes) is 153'1 KiB (not counting the Allegro library). This is on Fedora 18 64bit. Can't remember if it's bigger on Windows. [edit] Not sure if it's "X file is ... KiB" or "X file has ... KiB". In Spanish it's "has".[/edit]

About the challenge, now I'm too lazy so I'll wait. But may be I try...

[User137]

But alleg44.dll is 790kB.

[Darkhog]

I think you all are getting fixated on hi-level graphical APIs. There's one unit that would perfectly help with drawing B&W image.

Hint: It is there since Turbo Pascal and on FPC it pops a window.

[pstudio]

We're not saying that it is impossible, but personally I don't find it interesting at all to try and make my executables as small as possible by using tools that I wont normally use. To me it seems like an unnecessary requirement for a challenge about drawing an image with obscure code.

I might give this challenge a try, but I wont bother about size limit, and I think many other would be put off as well about the size limit if they can't use the tools they are familiar with.