Comments on: Data = Art

Data = Art

whir — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:24:40 -0800

distellamap is a series of graphical representations of the code and data in Atari 2600 game cartridges, created using the Processing programming language. The results are rather pretty. Also by the same author: mario soup, a representation of the sprites in Super Mario Brothers. (via artificial.dk)

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:39:20 -0800

Ah, sweet, sweet 6502. Sniff. *nostalgia*

By: killdevil

killdevil — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:10:37 -0800

Awesome.

By: zpousman

zpousman — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:24:53 -0800

Fan-fucking-tastic. Thanks! Note: The processing community including and especially Ben and Casey are totally fucking rad so everyone should try it. They answer code questions like nearly overnight. Check out the community site.

By: Herr Fahrstuhl

Herr Fahrstuhl — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:34:15 -0800

This is good.

By: Herr Fahrstuhl

Herr Fahrstuhl — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:56:20 -0800

Oh, and the via link (artificial.dk) is also worth checking out, if only for the link to Cory Arcangel's Super Mario Clouds project.

By: jewzilla

jewzilla — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:14:11 -0800

Along those lines, I remember ripping graphics from games on the Atari ST by breaking w/ the debugger and quckly scanning through memory. Since the debugger's displayed 16 bytes across, it was easy to see graphics because their hex values would look vaguely like their screen representations. Good times.

By: hattifattener

hattifattener — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:49:28 -0800

Cool. And a nice way to visualize the disassembled code, too.

By: Heywood Mogroot

Heywood Mogroot — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 16:35:10 -0800

echo $above

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:09:54 -0800

Why is processing a seperate language and not just an API you can call from java?

By: Heywood Mogroot

Heywood Mogroot — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:29:08 -0800

delmoi: the faq doesn't say, but they've got a stand-alone IDE that actually runs the apps, so it's a bona-fide environment.

By: longsleeves

longsleeves — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:47:17 -0800

More than strongly reminiscent of DNA sequences. Hmmmm....

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:13:47 -0800

Extremely neat.

By: localroger

localroger — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:31:13 -0800

I presented another way to appreciate the code for COMBAT. Maybe not as pretty, but much more informative about how the program works :-)

By: localroger

localroger — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:24:18 -0800

Oh, and on later reflection: When doing this kind of analysis (which I do on my own code all the time, on paper with pens) you don't draw arrows to subroutine calls (JSR's). That's just a gratuitous way of increasing the number of arrows in the graphs. And I use arrowheads to indicate jump direction.

By: Slothrup

Slothrup — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:51:56 -0800

Man, I haven't seen 6502 assembly language in almost twenty years!

By: milnak

milnak — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:42:57 -0800

Call me a geek, but I'd love to get a poster of one of those printouts.

By: hooray

hooray — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 10:48:53 -0800