I just added a new microcode. It's simply the perl version of the fork bomb that was discussed here the other day. Code-wise, I find it elegant; a single line of code capable of bringing its environment to a complete stop.
#!/usr/bin/perl fork && print "." x int(rand(100))."\n" while 1; I hadn't planned on making it one of the Microcodes. I mean, there's nothing new about a fork bomb. Alexander Galloway included one in the Whitney's Code-Doc exhibition in 2002 and I'm sure there have been other cases of fork bombs created as "art". My reason for presenting this fork bomb as a work of art relates to an article I was reading about Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon at the Island of Grande Jatte" for entirely different reasons. However the article spoke of the way he managed to "freeze a moment in time" which led me to think about how we might do that with our digital, "time-based" media. The answer, obviously, is the fork bomb. So this is a time-based version of "freezing a moment in time". http://pallit.lhi.is/microcodes/index.php?code_id=39 ps... I made a little revision so that it actually creates something resembling an image. It is, after all, "Art", eh? best r. Pall Thayer _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
