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Four L-system fractals in LaTeX
- dvdkhlng 11y agoYou just have to expect your users to do these kinds of things when giving them a Turing-complete document formatting language :) Reminds me of this postscript-rendered mandelbrot fractal: https://stech.muecke.pw/~spock/mandelbr.ps Never tried to run this natively on a postscript-printer, though.
- david-given 11y agoEither it or another similar one was floating around my university back in the late 90s. The IT department started sending round emails asking people not to run it on the elderly Lasyjet IIIs; the results looked great but would block the print queue for about three hours.
- dvdkhlng 11y agoThat annecdote just perfectly describes the pandora's box of turing-complete document formatting languages: Ultimately, you will be faced with the undecidability of the Halting Problem [1] :) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
- agumonkey 11y agoI feel the same everytime I load a "modern" javascript based webpage. Makes me understand that static data is predictable, aims at linear while anything to liberating gives up on that trait.
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