"Andrew Coppin" <orp### [at] btinternetcom> wrote in
news:3d99a877@news.povray.org: 

> Just wondering... Several people here have signitures consisting of
> compacted POV-Ray code. Has anyone ever actually tried *running* this
> stuff?

I did, and actually I collect all these signatures in a file...

> I just did, was utterly unable to follow how the heck it works,
> but was highly impressed by the resulting graphics!

A good exercise is to format nicely these signatures, then to understand how 
they work. Renaming variables may help :-)

> Just a thought...
> Andrew.

I believe the origin of such craziness is from "The International Obfuscated 
C Code Contest" <http://www.ioccc.org/>
Now, most programming languages has some obfuscated code showing :-)
Even Perl, which is quite obfuscated in its natural state ;-)
See also the "Name that programming language" (approximate citation) from 
the Off-Topic newsgroup.

> PS. I gotta get me one! :-|

Me too :-) I just have to start working on it, creating a short scene then 
compressing it.

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