@upmultimedia@mastodon.gamedev.place
2026-04-19 01:37 UTC
Code that runs an art installation is not art.
Code that contains an unreachable function called "unrequited_love" is art.
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@upmultimedia@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-19 02:05
Then there's the whole aesthetic value of code art -- where the the visual appearance matters -- which is a whole different thing. Python is one of the few languages to consider it and an undervalued reason for its success. People innately respond to beauty! Here's a beautiful piece of art code from a few years ago of a program that outputs the phases of the Moon but the code itself is in the shape of the Moon https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/2024/kurdyukov1/prog.c