When I was ~15 I wrote this: $c=`clear`;for(`tail -c+324 $0|zcat`){if(/^p/){print@l;@l=()}elsif(/^d(.+)/){select$u,$u,$u,$1/10}elsif(/^s(.)/){$s=9;$e=-30;$m=-1;

When I was ~15 I wrote this: $c=`clear`;for(`tail -c+324 $0|zcat`){if(/^p/){print@l;@l=()}elsif(/^d(.+)/){select$u,$u,$u,$1/10}elsif(/^s(.)/){$s=9;$e=-30;$m=-1;if('o'eq$1){$s=-30;$e=9;$m=1}for($i=$s;$i!=$e;$i+=$m){$j=0;for(@l){print substr($_,$i+$j++>0?($i+$j)2:0,-1)."\n"}select$u,$u,$u,.1;print$c}}elsif(/^c/){print$c;@l=()}else{push@l,$_}}__END__ Which (with ~1.5KB of binary data appended, total under 2KB) creates this: https://code.shishnet.org/videos/floating_point.mp4 https://code.shishnet.org/videos/floating_point.mp4 I feel like my youthful stupidity unlocked a lot of potential - I managed to make a lot of impressive fragile hacks which only needed to work once, and worked once. These days if I tried to create an animation like the one above, I’d probably get a couple of thousand lines into writing a well-tested reusable framework, and get bored before seeing any results...