ASCII fluid dynamics -- IOCCC2012 endoh1.c

Why HN readers recommended it

Commenters repeatedly point to it as an astonishing, beautiful piece of obfuscated-C code golf.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Yusuke Endoh

Topic

obfuscated c programming

Format

demo

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• Yusuke Endoh is a god amongst men. His C program which creates an approximation of fluid dynamics from any text input is insane - [VIDEO]

• This was written by Yusuke Endoh, who also wrote this submission to the IOCCC that I remember being arguably more astonished when I saw it for the first time: [VIDEO] (ASCII fluid dynamics).

• My favorite 2D liquid simulator is this IOCCC2012 submission [1]... simply astonishing. That is the source file shown at the beginning of the video... it compiles without warnings, runs a full blown fluid dynamics sim with surface tension and everything, can take itself as its …