QuasiSpace - Linux 128 bytes

I wished to do a C 128 bytes on Linux since a long time, this is not until Campers that i could achieve it with something interesting to show.

It show some kind of tilted apollonian fractal pattern, the pattern drift a bit on purpose to give "depth" and alleviate accumulating noise, it is some kind of minsky algorithm variation again.

I remember spending a lot of time tweaking the parameters and fighting GCC code gen, the code could probably made much shorter (see below) but i wasn't aware of this at the time, i am okay with the final result although it had an artifact at the center which could have been solved, i guess ones could explain it by QuasiSpace definition but that would be a bit too far-etched. :D

The picture is square due to a downscale on the final coordinates with a shift, this avoid checking that the drawing is outside buffer boundary and maintain the aspect ratio.

Does not use saturated arithmetic so the image become increasingly noisy.

Here is the very small algorithm that produce this kind of fractal (see Apollonian for more) :

// init (different constants here makes
for variations; small constants produce an ellipse)

x = 1e18

y = 1e9



// loop, preferably iterating more than once per loop (also works
without the x shift !)

x -= (y >> 2)

y += (x >> 1)



// scale it down when you plot it (here for a 512x512 image, y can
be scaled some more to have a good aspect ratio) : (x >> 23),
(y >> 23)