A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video]

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• I just created an API that found this news right now and it's amazing how it works because i can't believe it actually pulled a news from here
  by Joabpeters
• this is amazing
  by sri9s
• Naive question:what it actually is .and what is usecase
  by laxisOp
• a quine is a program that prints its own source code. The usecase is to inspire
  by rashkov
• Could use vonori / conformal map[0][1] in order to support the decomposition of a complex problem into individual parts/piet blocks. aka go from base 2 gotos to base N gotos.

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  [0] : Conformal Mapping by Computationally Efficient Methods : https://cdn.aaai.org/ojs/7676/7676-13-11206-1-2-20201228.pdf

  [1] : dictionary of conformal mapping : https://web.archive.org/web/20130407075256/http://math.fulle...

  "considered harmful" [gotos/globals/etc] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful

  "A case against the GO TO statement" : https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD02xx/EWD215...

  by sargstuff
• If you like quines with a visual output like this, I recently taped out an self-reproducing ASIC which displays it's own Verilog source over VGA. https://github.com/jar/ttsky26a_prime_quine

  You may view the simulated output: https://vga-playground.com/?repo=https://github.com/jar/ttsk...

  by jamesaross
• Every time I peek at the code from something by Mr. Endoh, I end up down a rabbit hole and learn something. I look forward to what this one brings. Probably looking into this Piet language: https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html

  Another awe-inspiring quine of his, from about a decade ago, is the 128-language ouroboros quine:

  https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

  by chao-
• The esolang wiki has a few simpler to grasp piet examples too. https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet
  by capitainenemo