Giving you spark and light
b. To darken.
[latin. obfuscare, to darken]
What are the strange hieroglyphics on the verifaction mugs? They are programs, written in the spirit of the IOCCC (The International Obfuscated C Code Contest). The overall winner is whoever produces the most unreadable, creative, and bizarre (but working) C program; various other prizes are awarded at the judges' whim. C's terse syntax and macro-preprocessor facilities give contestants a lot of room to maneuvre. The winning programs often manage to be simultaneously (a) funny, (b) breathtaking works of art, and (c) horrible examples of how not to code in C.
On this page you'll find examples of obfuscated code written by verifactionites in both C and perl. All the programs on this page can be cut and pasted into your favourite C compiler or perl interpreter, to produce amusing yet completely useless output.
main(i
,z){float a[
32],b=3,c;for(c=i=
0;i<32;)a[i++]=2;for(z
=590;z--;a[0]+=(a[0]>78||
a[0]<2)?b=-b*.9:b,a[1]=(a[
1]+(c+=0.2)>22)?c=-c*.999,
22:a[1]+c)for(i=31;i;a[i]=
i-1?a[i-2]:a[i],i--)if(i%2
)printf("\033[%d;%dH%c"
"\n",(int)a[i],(int)a[
i-1],1^"Awdshg@bu"
"hno///!"[i/2
]);}
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main(f,u,n){for(u=n=9;n+11
;) putchar(--u+29?(u-16)
/15||n/9?(u*u/3+n*n
-30)/12?32:37:1^
"dshg@buhnoAw"
[f++%12]:(u
=50,n--,
10 ))
;}
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main(
w,h,a,t
){int x
[1680
],y[
1680]
;for( h=0; h< 1680;y[h
++]=0 );for (;;w++){for (h=0;h<
1680; h++)x [h]=w -1?w%20?h/
9-97? y[h]: 1:y[h ]:0; puts(
"\033" "[H") ;for( h=71; h+0<
1610; h++){ for(t=a=0;a <3;a ++)t
+=x[h +69+a ]+x[h+a-71] +(a-1?x[h+a-
1]:0) ;y[h] =x[h] ?t<2?
0:t>3 ?0:x[ h]:t- 3?x[h
]:1;putchar (h%70 ?y[h] ?1^"dshg"
"@bhnoAw"[h %12]:32 :10); }delay(100); }}
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char *z="\ACGT\000\
CG\
T--A\
C---G\
G----C\
C----G\
G---C\
C--G\
CG\
GC\
A--T\
T---A\
C----G\
G----C\
C---G\
C--G\
GC\
CG\
G--C\
C---G\
G----C\
C----G\
A---T\
A--T\
CG\
GC\
C--G\
T---A\
A----T\
G----C\
A---T\
G--C\
TA\
CG\
G--C\
G---C\
C----G\
C----G\
G---C\
T--A\
TA\
GC\
C--G\
A---T\
C----G"
;main(n
){char
*c=z+
4;int
i=0,p
=0,t=0
;while(
*++c){
for(n=
0;z[
n]
&&
z[n]
!=*c;n
++);if
(n-4&&
(i/16
%2+
i++
+1)%
2)if(
t=t*4+
n,++p%
4==0)
{putchar
(t);t=0
;}}}
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// .
main (
T,u,x )
{x=0; //
while(u= //
"iLiLbLd+" //.
"ZOiLiLaL[" //
"cLa+(OiLiL" "L"
"[cL[bLVOiLiL" "["
"eL(OiLgLiVVOi" "L"
"hLHfLHOiLhLHT;U" //
"LT;UHOiLhLHTdLUH" "O"
"iLhLHL(b+[LHOiLhL" "H"
"fLHOiLgLa[JdLJa(OiL" "f"
"La[aLxuz!" "$aLa(Oi" "L"
"dL+a[\"1>" "52m/@5;:" "a("
"+OiLcLTLa" "(iLLa[LU" "Oi"
"LcL[aL(U" "h+T[aL(" "Oi"
"LcL(bL(" "h+[bL[O" "iL"
"cLTc+Uf" "LTc+UaO" "\"1"
">52m/@5" ";:LbZL3" "5B5"
":3LE;AL" "?<->7L-:0L8"
"534@L5" ":L^a\\FMa"
"LaOL"[x ++]){if(u
>=97&&u <=105)T=u
-95 ; else{u=
(u+20)% 96+32
;while (T--
>=1)// VX/
printf (
"%c",
(u-
35?(
u-//
122?
u:53
):10
))
;T
=1
;}
}}
//
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