Andrew Coppin <orp### [at] btinternetcom> wrote:
> Just wondering... Several people here have signitures consisting of
> compacted POV-Ray code. Has anyone ever actually tried *running* this stuff?

  Well, some time ago (a year or something like that?) there was a boom
of making compact pov-signatures.
  I think that the idea started from me using a compact signature written
in C and then making a similar with pov code (or was it someone else who
made it in pov code first? I can't remember).

  At that time it was a common practice for me and a couple of other people
to take the signatures of other people and shorten them even more (without
affecting the resulting image in any way, or at most only slightly
noticeably). Some of the shortenings were really impressive (eg. something
like from 5 lines to 2 lines).
  Usually shortening has the side-effect of making the code even more
obfuscated, so it has two advantages.

-- 
#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -

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