@@ -2,19 +2,6 @@ reddit mona lisa meme thing in c. written by nick welch <nick@incise.org>. author disclaims copyright. -WARNING to those who might scrutinize the code: - -the code is REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY messy and ugly and bad. i started off -with some old code and frantically pulverized it into what it is. the result -is a mix of c and c++, different syntax styles, etc. it's horrible. i was in -a rush, only had a few hours to do it, and needed to get to sleep to wake up -for a flight the next day. now it works and i have little motivation to go -back and clean up something that was basically a random whim. it's not -impossible to understand or anything, but it's not pretty either. - -also, one drawback vs. the web version is that you can't see the random -attempts onscreen -- you only see the current "best" version. - build requirements (ubuntu/debian package names): pkg-config @@ -36,5 +23,21 @@ the path to the mona.png image is hardcoded in the source code, so without tweaking that, you must run it from same directory. feel free to modify the NUM_POINTS and NUM_SHAPES #defines to play around with -different variations. +different variations. to run it against another image, change "mona.png" to +"whatever.png" in the code (or merely copy your image over mona.png) (it must +be a png), and modify the WIDTH and HEIGHT #defines accordingly. text can +produce some cool looking results. + +WARNING to those who might scrutinize the code: + +the code is REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY messy and ugly and bad. i started off +with some old code and frantically pulverized it into what it is. the result +is a mix of c and c++, different syntax styles, etc. it's horrible. i was in +a rush, only had a few hours to do it, and needed to get to sleep to wake up +for a flight the next day. now it works and i have little motivation to go +back and clean up something that was basically a random whim. it's not +impossible to understand or anything, but it's not pretty either. + +also, one drawback vs. the web version is that you can't see the random +attempts onscreen -- you only see the current "best" version. README 9fd607a115ffa4d403087d44fcfc5ab6e67da70b Nick Welch mack@incise.org http://github.com/mackstann/mona/commit/bc21220185b74fe2a4e17886c328a04c0d64b51d bc21220185b74fe2a4e17886c328a04c0d64b51d 2008-12-18T06:11:37-08:00 2008-12-18T06:11:37-08:00 yadda 32f830f267ec221ff987676f915cb0ef39707a85 Nick Welch mack@incise.org