[iverjo]

Fractals can be drawn by surprisingly small amounts of code. For example, this mandelbrot fractal is implemented in 122 characters of JavaScript: https://www.dwitter.net/d/123

I wouldn't be surprised if the burning ship fractal could be coded on dwitter (i.e. with 140 characters or less) as well

[AceJohnny2]

When working on an SoC over 5 years ago, we'd have it display the company logo on screen upon boot. While not necessary for the test, it was really useful to see if the system reached that boot stage.

As an afternoon exercise, I wrote a Mandelbrot draw function (my first fractal display code!). Then I realized it was both faster and used less code and runtime memory than the image display stuff, so I replaced it in my environment. Other people were amused by it, so it went in public repository.

A couple weeks later, someone removed it to reinstate the image display. I guess having the company logo for internal-only code was more important to someone :(

I don't work there anymore.

[userbinator]

Even better if your company's logo is a fractal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:American_Megatrends_Logo....

If I remember correctly, early AMIBIOS did generate that logo procedurally using a short piece of code.

[quarterto]

Just need to add a Math.abs: https://www.dwitter.net/d/457

[vog]

Nice, but you don't need Math.abs to stay within the 140 chars limit:

  t?i++:i=0;for(j=1080;j--;){a=b=0;k=35;for(;k--&&a*a+b*b<4;)c=a*a-b*b+i/540-2,b=2*(a*b<0?-a*b:a*b)+j/540-1,a=c;x.fillRect(i,j,1,S(k/9))}