> On 04/02/14 11:45, FractRacer wrote:
>>
>> All Povray-ers are using algorithms and arts. Why think that artists are

>> the construction of a stellated pentagon! Since long times some artists
>> were inspired by mathematicals concepts. And closer to us (in times) we
>> find Escher, Dali...
>>
>> Lionel.
>
> I don't think that art and algorithms are incompatible. If I expressed
> myself unclearly, I apologise. Vikram Chandra's piece was an elegy to
> elegant and clever coding.

No, it's me, I have read too fast - just after eating, just before 
working - and my English is not good enough. My opinion concerned 
essentially the paragraphs where the author talk about the artists and 
the programmers - like two strangers face to face.

>
> A well-written piece of code can have as much beauty as a poem. A
> badly-written one grates on the brain in the same way as a poorly-played
> melody does on the ears.
>
> John
>

The writing with only code looks a bit like the works of the OULIPO 
(workshop of potential literature) with his constraints.

Lionel.

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