The elaborate, time consuming and useless "challenge"

[Torand]

Ok, so, bit bored at the moment and in the heat of my boredom thought of this, although still unsure weather its been done on this forum before.

 

 

 

Challenge

 

Find the most annoying, illegible, time consuming, elaborate and useless way of displaying the popular phrase 'Hello World!', in your favored language.

 

 

 

Point

 

Ok, so there isn't really one, just self satisfaction and bragging rights, although questionable on what you'd brag about. 

 

Also, here's a few free bits for the winner, nom: 01100011 01101111 01101111 01101011 01101001 01100101

 

 

 

Parameters and Rules

 

Go nuts. Although please enclose the code in spoilers if its hugely nuts, please, if its just insanely complex - like beyond comprehension - mind blowing - pure insanity - please, someone, think of the children! Wait... gone a bit... nahh.

[Slaeowulf]

The following is "Hello World" in whitespace.

Hope you enjoyed that.

[KaareKanin]

I'm having a good mind to write a script to make MatLab render it without hiding each iteration of loop, having it display each matrix once for each operation, which will mean three matrices for each pixel. But then again, the very thought of doing that makes me so annoyed I'd rather spend the time headbutting myself in the face

[Torand]

The following is "Hello World" in whitespace.

Hope you enjoyed that.

 

Hope someone else enjoys it now as well, q-u-o-t-e!

Ahh, dem feels near the middle, nearly make me well up, i think we are onto a winner!

[Torand]

I'm having a good mind to write a script to make MatLab render it without hiding each iteration of loop, having it display each matrix once for each operation, which will mean three matrices for each pixel. But then again, the very thought of doing that makes me so annoyed I'd rather spend the time headbutting myself in the face

 

HAHA!

[Hans Christian | Teri]

The following is "Hello World" in whitespace.

 

Damn it, I was going to do that.

[piplupgao]

Hello World

[Flojer0]

DISCLAIMER: I did not write a full raytracer, I borrowed from a small raytracer called smallpt http://www.kevinbeason.com/smallpt/.

 

I've always wanted to do something interesting with this code and never could come up with a good idea. Then this thread gave me inspiration. An hour of plotting all the letters and another hour of rendering later (preceded by a little frustration that the code wouldn't compile under windows and having to but up and work in my ubuntu vm) I have this.

 

 

And here is a link to the a google doc of the code. It is pretty much just the smallpt code from the link above with the scene edited in the 'Sphere speres []' array.

 

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B23rZ6PeXIB_cXl6ajQxRnFUWGs/edit?usp=sharing

 

Lastly, I just noticed I made an error in my plotting. It's probably easy to spot. If it bugs anyone I'll fix it. I'm going to go back to playing escape goat now.

[Torand]

DISCLAIMER: I did not write a full raytracer, I borrowed from a small raytracer called smallpt http://www.kevinbeason.com/smallpt/.

 

I've always wanted to do something interesting with this code and never could come up with a good idea. Then this thread gave me inspiration. An hour of plotting all the letters and another hour of rendering later (preceded by a little frustration that the code wouldn't compile under windows and having to but up and work in my ubuntu vm) I have this.

 

 

And here is a link to the a google doc of the code. It is pretty much just the smallpt code from the link above with the scene edited in the 'Sphere speres []' array.

 

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B23rZ6PeXIB_cXl6ajQxRnFUWGs/edit?usp=sharing

 

Lastly, I just noticed I made an error in my plotting. It's probably easy to spot. If it bugs anyone I'll fix it. I'm going to go back to playing escape goat now.

 

Very interesting, certainly an interesting take on it. Props!

[Torand]

Here's my PHP example;

 

<?php

$hwla = array("H", "e", "l", "l", "o", " ", "W", "o", "r", "l", "d", ".");

$len = count($hwla);

for ($i=0; $i<$len; $i++) {

     echo $hwla[$i];

}

?>

 

I'm not using anything complex, If I put more time into it I could use associative and multidimensional arrays to further complicate it, jumble it up and re order it using sort() and rsort(). You could go on..

 

I was also surprised by the syntax of languages being so close, C being my first language I really learnt. 

[aikoels]

most languages can just do....

 

def hello1():

    print 'hello world!'

 

def hello2():

    hello1()

 

def hello3():

    hello2()

 

ect. ect.

[lutzee]

At least whitespace is kind of readable, in some sense

heres Hello World! in Malbolge

('&%:9]!~}|z2Vxwv-,POqponl$Hjig%eB@@>a=<M:9[p6tsl1TS/QlOj)L(I&%$""Z~AA@UZ=RvttT`R5P3m0LEDh,T*?(b&`$#87[}{W

[MikeD]

Here is something for the C++ template lovers, featuring macros!

#include <iostream>using namespace std;template<char C>void print();#define PRINT(I,C) \    template<> \    void print<I>() { \      cout << C; \    }#define FOREACH(MACRO) \    MACRO(0, 'H') \    MACRO(1, 'e') \    MACRO(2, 'l') \    MACRO(3, 'l') \    MACRO(4, 'o') \    MACRO(5, ' ') \    MACRO(6, 'W') \    MACRO(7, 'o') \    MACRO(8, 'r') \    MACRO(9, 'l') \    MACRO(10, 'd') \    MACRO(11, '!')FOREACH(PRINT)template<int I = 0>struct MetaPrinter {  static void next() {    print<I>();    MetaPrinter<(int)I+1>::next();  }};template<>struct MetaPrinter<12> {  static void next() {    cout << endl;  }};int main() {  MetaPrinter<0>::next();  return 0;}

It might not be very elaborate, illegible or time-consuming, but it's definitely useless!

[fizzlesticks]

DISCLAIMER: I did not write a full raytracer, I borrowed from a small raytracer called smallpt http://www.kevinbeason.com/smallpt/.

 

I've always wanted to do something interesting with this code and never could come up with a good idea. Then this thread gave me inspiration. An hour of plotting all the letters and another hour of rendering later (preceded by a little frustration that the code wouldn't compile under windows and having to but up and work in my ubuntu vm) I have this.

 

 

And here is a link to the a google doc of the code. It is pretty much just the smallpt code from the link above with the scene edited in the 'Sphere speres []' array.

 

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B23rZ6PeXIB_cXl6ajQxRnFUWGs/edit?usp=sharing

 

Lastly, I just noticed I made an error in my plotting. It's probably easy to spot. If it bugs anyone I'll fix it. I'm going to go back to playing escape goat now.

Not quite as pretty, I haven't gotten around to area lights or fuzz yet.

[Flojer0]

Not quite as pretty, I haven't gotten around to area lights or fuzz yet.

 

Well, if you wrote the ray-trace yourself you deserve mad props. I was just playing script kiddie .

[MikeD]

And I'm back, this time with something for the Lisp users, particularly clisp:

(defgeneric hello (x))(defmethod hello ((x integer)) (format t "W") (call-next-method))(defmethod hello ((x real)) (format t "o") (call-next-method))(defmethod hello ((x number)) (format t "r"))(defmethod hello :after ((x number)) (format t "l"))(defmethod hello :after ((x real)) (format t "d"))(defmethod hello :after ((x integer)) (format t "!"))(defmethod hello :before ((x integer)) (format t "l"))(defmethod hello :before ((x real)) (format t "o"))(defmethod hello :before ((x number)) (format t " "))(defmethod hello :around ((x integer)) (format t "H") (call-next-method))(defmethod hello :around ((x real)) (format t "e") (call-next-method))(defmethod hello :around ((x number)) (format t "l") (call-next-method))(hello 5) ; You can call with any value, as long as it's an integer!

Enjoy!

[ultimatemythbuster]

Just some simple HTML

 

 

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

    <title>Hello World</title>

</head>

<body>

<p>Hello World<p>

</body>

</html>

[ultimatemythbuster]

"Hello World" in Python

 

print "Hello World"

 

 

OMG that was so hard.

[brob]

program WorkIt;
  procedure WriteIt (s : string);
     function BreakIt (s : string; i : integer) : string;
        begin
        if i > 1 then write (BreakIt (s, i - 1));
        result := s ;
        end;
  begin
  BreakIt (s, Length (s) + 1);
  end;

begin
WriteIt ('Hello World');
end;

 

[MrSuperb]

public class Test1 {    public static void main(String[] args) {        System.out.println(dlrowolleh(1, "!DlRow OlLeH"));    }    public static String dlrowolleh(int i, String st) {        if (st.length() >= i) {            st = dlrowolleh(i + 1, st);            st = st.substring(0, st.length() - i) + st.substring(st.length() - 1) + st.substring(st.length() - i, st.length() - 1);            for (int x = 0; x < st.length() - 1; x++) {                if (x == 0) {                    st = st.substring(0, x + 1).toUpperCase() + st.substring(x + 1, st.length()).toLowerCase();                } else if (st.charAt(x) == ' ') {                    st = st.substring(0, x + 1) + st.substring(x + 1, x + 2).toUpperCase() + st.substring((x + 2), st.length());                }            }        }        return st;    }}

cause ... why the fuck should I make it easy?

[juretrn]

What? No VHDL? I am disappoint. Maybe I'll try to make a contribution in that direction.