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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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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intersection of lists of circles
We have had several challenges about the intersection of circles on a cartesian plane, including
Circle intersection area
Intersection of circles – How can I reduce this golf code to 127 bytes?
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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 manned 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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Simplify the following C ascii graphing function
This wasn't originally intended for code-golf, just as a little debugging routine to roughly visualize something "goofy" going on in a model of some (irrelevant here) physical process. But when I saw ...
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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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Using the smallest number of bytes of code, write a program that produces this image
Context:
Gynvael Coldwind, a famous security researcher, published a contest in his blog post (that is now complete). The goal was similar to the one described here, but with certain restrictions ...
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Draw the Easter Bunny
This happy individual is known in folklore as the Easter Bunny.
Colours
It is created using 4 colours:
Light pink
Dark pink
White
Black
(I'm happy for these colours to be approximated in your ...
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Generate an RGB colour grid
This! is an RGB colour grid...
Basically it's a 2-dimensional matrix in which:
The first row, and the first column, are red.
The second row, and the second column, are green.
The third row, and the ...
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Sub-pixel Zooming
Your task is to take a 24 BPP sRGB image and output the same image upscaled 3x into red, green, and blue subpixels. The resulting image will be made entirely of pure black, red, green, and blue pixels....
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Make a transparent 448*448 image
This is a simple challenge.
The task is to write code that outputs a 448*448 square image with 100% transparency. The output should follow the standard image rules.
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Drawing the Peano curve
Introduction
In geometry, the Peano curve is the first example of a space-filling curve to be discovered, by Giuseppe Peano in 1890. Peano's curve is a surjective, continuous function from the unit ...
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Generate Matlab plot markers
Matlab has a useful command for visualizing data: plot. It draws data points using "markers" in 2-D space, connecting them with lines; however, for this challenge, ...
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Draw a times table (also called modular multiplication circle) of a number \$n\$ with \$k\$ vertices
Not to be confused with this question.
You need to draw a times table (also known as Cremona's method for cardioid generation) as shown in this video. The number \$n\$ and \$k\$ will be the inputs.
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Can square tree rings be generated from primes?
Apparently yes! In three easy steps.
Step 1
Let f(n) denote the prime-counting function (number of primes less than or equal to n).
Define the integer sequence s(n) as follows. For each positive ...
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Implement the Boids algorithm
Introduction
The Boids Algorithm is a relatively simple demonstration of emergent behavior in a group. It has three main rules, as described by its creator, Craig Reynolds:
The basic flocking model ...
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Foam Bath Letters
If you have a small child in your house, you may have come across foam bath letters. These can be moistened and stuck to flat surfaces such as tiles and the side of the bath to make words and messages....
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Happy Birthday, Finland!
Introduction
As is known, in 2017, Finland celebrates its 100 years of independence. To mark the occasion, it is your job to produce a Finnish flag for everyone's enjoyment.
Challenge
Create a ...
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Large size letter [duplicate]
Convert a letter(you can choose upper or lower) into a picture, which only consist of '.' and '#' (or any two reasonable char), ...
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How to code colors in hex
Hexagonal tessellations, or tilings of the plane, are three-colorable -- meaning that using only three colors, such as Red, Blue, and Green, every hexagon can be colored without any two hexagons that ...
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Drawing a square with an 'x' inside [closed]
Task:
Make a program that draws the following figure line by line.
Your program should wait for one-second after drawing each line(it can be longer, just has to be a noticeable difference) .
Your ...
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Generate a special period image
Construct a program or function that takes input in form of
<width>, <height>, <color1>, <color2>
and generates an output such that first ...
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Little Boxes on the Hillside
There's a satirical song called Little Boxes, originally by Malvina Reynolds, about suburban sprawl that has lyrics as follows:
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,
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Application screen shot [closed]
Write the minimal code you need to take a screenshot of your application window. I am not asking for a function or program; just only a code segment.
It has obviously to be a GUI application; console ...
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Draw the Swiss Flag
Task: Output the Swiss flag.
Happy Swiss National Day / Schweizer Bundesfeiertag / Fête nationale suisse / Festa nazionale svizzera / Fiasta naziunala svizra!
Details:
The flag consists of a white ...
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The Chroma Key to Success
The RGB color value #00FF00 is a rather important one: it is used to make movies, TV shows, weather announcements, and more. It is the famous "TV green" ...
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Sandbox Visualization Module Emulator
The Zachtronics game TIS-100 contains a graphics display called the visualization module. I could try and explain the specs of this module, but the game's manual will do a better job:
(As you may ...
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A Dog on a Chain
I'm looking out of my attic window into my neighbor's yard. They have a dog chained to a post in the center of the yard. The dog runs around the yard but is always on the end of its chain, so it ...
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Let's draw Mona Lisa
In 2014, demoscener Jakub 'Ilmenit' Debski released a 250-byte(1) procedural graphics demo for the Atari XL called Mona. It's drawing the following picture(2):
Your task is to generate the exact same ...
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Draw A Reuleaux Triangle!
The Reuleaux triangle is the shape formed by the intersection of three circles, with each circle passing through the others' centers. Regardless of rotation, a Reuleaux triangle's width will always ...
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Display random colored pixels
I've always liked screens full of randomly colored pixels. They're interesting to look at and the programs that draw them are fun to watch.
The challenge
Fill your screen, or a graphical window, ...
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Display the Hacker Logo
You may have heard of the "Hacker Logo", also called the "Hacker Emblem". It looks like this:
This is a pattern from a mathematical simulation called the Game of Life. The glider is the simplest Life ...
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The strange attraction of the logistic map
The purpose of the challenge is to approximately plot the attractor of the logistic map as a function of its parameter r (also called bifurcation diagram), or a subregion of it. The appearance of the ...
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Print your system's logo [closed]
This is a throwback challenge. You will choose an old computer system and an old language created for that system.
The challenge
Pick an old computer system that was made before the year 2000. In a ...
