Questions tagged [graphical-output]
This challenge involves drawing pictures on a screen or generating image files. For pure ASCII art contests, use [ascii-art] instead. If participants can choose between graphics and ASCII art, use both tags. For images as input, use [image-processing].
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Convert numbers to dice patterns
The way points are assigned on a dice follows a regular pattern, the center dot is present if and only if the number is odd. To represent the even numbers, pairs of dots on opposite sides of the ...
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My eight braille pattern progressive snake spinner
Introduction
I would like to drawn a nice spinner by using eight braille patterns on two lines, drawing a square of 8x8 pixel, for showing a kind of snake growing and reducing:
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Draw the GKMS aperiodic tile
Chaim Goodman-Strauss, Craig Kaplan, Joseph Myers and David Smith found the following simple (both objectively and subjectively) polygon that tiles the plane, but only aperiodically:
Indeed they ...
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Draw Parcly Taxel's cutie mark
I've been a fan of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic for a long time, and very early on I created a pony version of myself also called Parcly Taxel (warning: may be too cute to look at). The symbol ...
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Draw a Gameboy Tile
Description
The Gameboy stores tiles as 2 bit-per-pixel 8x8 images, thus 16 bytes. Every two bytes is a complete row with all of the Low-bits of each pixel in the first byte, and all of the High-bits ...
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Create a triangle whose colors are determined by the bitsums of coordinates
Write a program that, for any \$n\$, generates a triangle made of hexagons as shown, \$2^n\$ to a side. The colors are to be determined as follows.
We may give the triangle barycentric coordinates so ...
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Create a nibble shorthand
I recently stumbled across this image on wikimedia commons. It's a little bit of an information overload at first, but after examining it a bit it shows an interesting number system for writing ...
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I'm Blue, Da ba dee da ba die
Write a program, which outputs I'm Blue, and then Da, Ba, Dee, Da, Ba, Die, forever, the words must be space-seperated in one ...
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Fibonacci word fractal
The Fibonacci word is a sequence of binary strings defined as:
\$F_0 = \$ 0
\$F_1 = \$ 01
\$F_n = F_{n-1} F_{n-2}\$
The first ...
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PUT-PIXEL in every language
During work on some project I needed to draw pixels on screen. I found some put-pixel function in JS, but code was quite big and clumsy - so I wonder, how small put-pixel function can be...
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Draw the USA flag
I noticed that it seems nobody has posted a non-ASCII (related) USA flag challenge yet, so what better time than the 4th of July?
The Challenge
Draw the current (as of 2022) flag of the United States ...
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Draw this fractal generated by applying Newton's method to cosh(x) - 1
I came across this picture the other day: (Credit to Josep M Batlle I Ferrer)
Your job is to generate this picture. This graph is generated by repeatedly applying newton's method to the graph of:
$$f(...
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Draw the Progress Pride flag
Challenge
Create the image of a progress pride flag.
Output
Dimensions
Rules
Your program must create the image and not just load it from a website
The colours can be just your language's default ...
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Graphical Hello World [closed]
In this challenge, you will create the shortest graphical program that displays exactly "Hello, world!"
You will need no input.
You might be asking yourself, "what does he mean by ...
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Draw the Archimedean Spiral
Overview
I was playing with Desmos and discovered a really cool spiral:
Doing some research, I discovered that this spiral was the Archimedian spiral. Every point on the spiral is exactly \$\theta\$ ...
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Random Pixels Image Compression
Challenge:
Given an integer \$n\$, guaranteed to be \$\geq2\$ and a power of 2, we are going to draw multiply boards either side-by-side or below one another, where the first has dimensions of \$n\$ ...
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Draw New Posts' Profile!
New Posts and New Sandbox Posts are chatbots that occupy CGSE's main chatroom, The Nineteenth Byte. They've been doing their jobs for almost one full year now, so I thought I'd make a challenge to ...
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Translate Text into Matoran
The Matoran Alphabet is the alphabet used by many of the characters in the Bionicle universe.
Your challenge is to create a program or function that takes a string as input and creates an image of ...
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Draw the Ukrainian Flag
As you probably know, there is a war going on in Ukraine. I noticed that it seems nobody has posted a Ukrainian flag challenge yet, so I thought I'd do it myself in support of Ukraine.
The Challenge
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Diagram of the Utmost Extremes
The Mathematica SE question Creating the Yin Yang symbol with minimal code seems to be an out-of-the-box ready-to-go Code Golf SE question!
The following code creates the Yin Yang symbol
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Draw Lines in ASCII [closed]
Challenge
Draw lines in ASCII corresponding to given inputs:
in the first line there are given size of rows and columns of the view and number of separators between each point
in the second line is ...
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Temporally Dither an Image (Image to PWM Image)
Background
I want to display rich, vibrant images on my theoretical fancy custom display, but due to budget constraints, it displays everything in 3-bit colour! Whilst Regular Dithering would work, I ...
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Draw me a shape
The game shapez.io has a lot of shapes. In my previous challenge, the object was to generate a random code for a shape. Now, your challenge is to render a shape.
Specs
Shapes
Each shape has a unique ...
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Make a GUI window in any language using minimum "different characters" [closed]
I want you to make a gui window like this:
* if you're thinking, the [quit] button closes the window
in any language using minimum "different" characters..
AND remember that the gui window ...
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Ploughed fields via moduli
Let \$R, C\$ be positive integers and let \$0 < s \leq 1\$. Consider the \$R \times C\$ matrix \$\mathbf M\$ defined as
\begin{equation}
M(i,j) = \frac{\mathrm{mod}\,(j, i^s)}{R^s}, \quad i = 1, \...
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Create a Pride Flag
Challenge
Create the image of a pride flag (rainbow flag), i.e. a six coloured striped flag (from top to bottom): red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.
Output
Example (R)
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Collatz's ice cream cone factory
The Collatz sequence
Given a positive integer \$a_1\$, the Collatz sequence with starting value \$a_1\$ is defined as
\begin{equation}
a_{n+1} =
\begin{cases}
a_n/2 & \mathrm{if}\ a_n\ \mathrm{is}\...
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Recreate the Stack Overflow logo
In response to here.
Unlike the previous one, this focuses on code-golf and a new logo, no longer consisting of 6 sticks and the graying-effect as the position of the sticks go deeper.
Make the Stack ...
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Draw the flag of Bangladesh
The flag of Bangladesh is very simple. It looks like below:
The flag will be in bottle green (#006a4e) and rectangular in size in the proportion of length to width of 10:6, with a red circle in near ...
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Fill the screen in 6502asm.com [closed]
Introduction
I've always liked the idea of finding the most possible bang-for-your-buck squeezed out of a tiny chip, like the 6502. Of course, I'll need to start small. Filling the screen on 6502asm....
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Make a QR quine [closed]
A "qruine" if you will :)
Design a QR code that legibly spells with its pixels (or the space between them) the text that it scans to.
For example, this QR code scans to the letter A, and ...
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Plot a centered circle
Intro
Given radius \$r\$, draw a circle in the center of the screen.
Sandbox.
The Challenge
Here is a simple challenge.
Plot a circle using the formula \$x^2+y^2=r^2\$, or any other formula that will ...
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Draw the "{🏅} CODE GOLF & coding challenges" logo!
Wow, time really flies! It's already been one year since the debut of the Code Golf Stack Exchange site design. Let's celebrate this milestone with a code golf challenge... to imitate the site logo!
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Draw the NASA worm logo
Introduction
On 30 May 2020, NASA and SpaceX launched a crewed rocket to the international space station on the SpaceX Demo 2 mission. This is the first time humans have been launched into orbit from ...
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Solve the Rook's Round Trip
The riddle
In yesterday's newspaper, I found a puzzle in which a Rook should start in the lower-left corner of a 12x12 checkerboard and then, during a round trip, visit each field exactly once except ...
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Tile the plane with squashed hexagons
I came across an interesting tiling of the plane using squashed hexagons in a popular math book. All the six edges of the squashed hexagon are the same length. Two opposite corners are right angles ...
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Create pixel art!
The task
Given an image as input, your task is to do the following:
Resize the image so it is At least 2 times smaller, but still has the same width/height ratio by taking every second (if resized ...
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Generate Green Spray Paint Patterns
This challenge is about creating these neat "green spray paint" patterns: (more pictures below)
Loosely explained, they are generated by starting with a black image and a point in the center. ...
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Produce an image based on an elementary cellular automata ruleset
What is elementary cellular automata?
Since I'm not sure I'll be able to explain this so that somebody who has never heard of this is able to understand, I'm giving an explanation from https://...
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Any lips images
Introduction
The \$n\$-ellipse is a generalization of the ellipse with possibly more than two foci. Specifically, given \$n\$ points on the plane, called foci, the \$n\$-ellipse is the set of points ...
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Draw the Ionising Radiation Hazard Symbol
Draw the ionising-radiation-hazard-symbol in an arbitrary colour on a distinctly coloured background. The specific proportions were published in the June 27th 1974 issue of the Federal Register of the ...
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Draw the flag of Tennessee
The flag of Tennessee is specified by chapter 498 of the Public Acts of 1905.
An oblong flag or banner in length one and two thirds times its width, the large or principal field of same to be of ...
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Codegolf : the HEX [closed]
INTRODUCTION
I like Karma Fields : he's a music producer that creates original music tracks. His artwork also matches up really well his style.
He has a logo witch I find really interessing :
GOAL
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Creating a 16x16(NxN) grid [closed]
This is my first question in Code golf I found it in stack-overflow (originally in JavaScript however all languages are acceptable):
Render on screen NxN (where N ...
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Draw the ☣ (Biohazard Symbol)
Draw the Biohazard symbol in an arbitrary colour on a distinctly coloured background. The specific proportions were published in the June 27th 1974 issue of the Federal Register of the US Government.
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Create the least compressible picture
"A picture is worth a thousand words"—so the old saying goes. The average word is about four characters long, so a picture conveys 4kB of information. But how much entropy, rather than information, ...
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Tile the chessboard with four-colored triominoes
Task:
Consider the problem: "given a chessboard with one square missing, cut it into 21 L-triominoes". There is a well-known constructive proof that this can be done for any square ...
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Bridge the Gaps
Given a black and white image with a white background and a set of black dots, paint a set of white pixels red, such that there is a path between each pair of black pixels.
Details
A path is a set ...
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Prime parity peregrination
The purpose of this challenge is to graphically depict a walk on the plane, where the direction of each step \$k\$ is determined by the primality of \$k\$ and the parity of its binary expansion. ...
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Self-displaying image [closed]
Background
There are self-extracting .ZIP files. Typically they have the extension .EXE (and by executing the file they will be ...
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