Best Utility: Mark Horton Mark Horton AT&T Bell Labs Rm 1H-117 6200 E Broad St. Columbus OH 43213 USA Judges' comments: To use: make horton ./horton A B C D A, B, C, D are numeric arguments (try 3 2 1 0). Try to figure out how this program prints, for a given slope, the right character. And for extra credit, try to figure out which character is at the bottom on this hint file. :-) This confuses cb greatly. See gtplot.c for an unobfuscated/enhanced version. To compile it: make horton.alt ./horton.alt A B C D A, B, C, D are numeric arguments (try 3 2 1 0). Selected notes from the author: Run it with any 4 numeric arguments, e.g. prog 3 2 1 0. Play with the numbers to get a pleasing result, or use it for your high school algebra class. SPOILER: As should be obvious from 20 feet away, the program is a cubic plotter. It plots against certain artists, splattering their cubes with graphs of their cubic equations. Those dastardly arguments are mere coefficients, cogs in the wheels of the grand plot to overthrow the cubics! Oh, by the way, it uses a self-contained graphtab and frame buffer. It's easily modified to graph *any* 96x160 bitmap on a dumb terminal. See the gtface program for another example. Try: make gtface ./gtface < gtface.data For more information, see Using GraphTab; USENIX ;login: Sept/Oct 1992; Pages 28-31 MMMM,M,MM"MM,,, ,,MMMMMMMMM"""""""", ,MMMMM""" ", ,MMM" " MMM M MM MM" " M M " , ,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,MM "MMMM"M,MMMMM MMMM M M"MMM, ,M"MMMM"MM"MMM""M""MMMM""M"M , MM M M,M M" "M",, M "M " M ,M," ,M "M, ,,,", M M , M"MMM",,M,M,,""" , , ",," , " "MMMMMMMM " , " ,M , ""M,MMMMMMMM,M " ,, ,MM, MMMMMMMMMMMMMM,", M, M,M,MM"M"M" """M"MM,M M ,MMMMMM M,MMMMM"M MM""M M MMMMMM,M M"M"" M MMMM", , "M"MMMMMMMMMM"M ,MMMMM M ,, "" MMMMMMM,M,MM,M,,,MMM"M , ," , "MMMMMMM"MM"M,,,,MMMMM , ,, M ," MMMMMM"MM""M ,MMMMM,M, M , MMMM,MMMM"M"M"M,MM,M,", " Copyright (c) 1994, Landon Curt Noll & Larry Bassel. All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational or non-profit use is granted provided this this copyright and notice are included in its entirety and remains unaltered. All other uses must receive prior permission in writing from both Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel.