I know this is a few days early, but I probably wont get time to post this before xmas otherwise. I just wanted to say Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to everyone here at UnitedBSD 🎄 This has been a a pretty mental year for everyone, with lock-down/quarantine still in full affect in many places of the world. I live in Melbourne and we had one of the worst outbreaks in Australia, at one point in stage 4 lock-down (literally needing a permit to leave home for non-essential travel). Thankfully we are no longer under any restrictions. 🥳 During the nearly 8 months of isolation this year I was unable to have much contact with friends and even family so I buried my head in the only indoor hobbies I have; drinking beer and messing with computers. I have been so amazed by the quality and content of this forum and it's users, and I have you all to thank for your help over this past year. So many of you are extremely knowledgeable and best of all willing to share your knowledge with us new starters. It's been nearly 2 years now since I started using NetBSD and while I'm still in the noob camp I am slowly becoming more confident in my own abilities, thanks entirely to this community. So thank you all very much. 🙏 I hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable holiday. Hug your family members and friends (if your allowed to) , keep wearing your masks in public places (covid isn't gone yet..) and be kind to strangers (like you have been to me) . Cheers 🍻

pfr Merry Christmas and Happy New year to you too and UnitedBSD members 🙂 Thanks for your kind words. Stay safe and don't forget wearing mask. 😇

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year Everyone

pfr Merry X-tmas to you too.

Merry X-tmas to everyone on the forum. 🎄

flfederation

Merry Christmas to you all, and especially to NetBSD and OpenBSD.

I have donated to NetBSD as I said I would. I would like very much to donate to OpenBSD but it is just a little more difficult (I'm only saying that with the payment method I had and preferred, NetBSD made it a little easier).

I think very highly of these two projects, and wish them (as well as the extremely helpful people here) a happy 2021.

nia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ICpoWtFFzc

rvp

x.awk:

#!/usr/bin/awk -f
#
# tr '_.' ' #' < in.txt

BEGIN {
	cmd = "echo $$"
	cmd | getline
	close(cmd)
	srand($1)
	cmd = "stty size"
	cmd | getline
	close(cmd)
	row = $1
	col = $2
	for (i = 1; i < ARGC; i++) {
		system("clear")
		doit(ARGV[i], row, col)
		system("sleep 2")
	}
	printf("\n")
}
function doit(FN, row, col,	L, N, maxc, i, r, c, ncell, P)
{
	while ((getline < FN) > 0) {
		L[N++] = $0
		if (length > maxc)
			maxc = length
	}
	close(FN)
	r = int((row - N) / 2)
	for (i = 0; i < N; i++) {
		c = int((col - maxc) / 2)
		n = split(L[i], a, "")
		for (j = 1; j <= n; j++) {
			if (a[j] == ".")
				P[ncell++] = sprintf("%d;%d", r+1, c+1)
			c++
		} r++
	}
	maxc = ncell
	while (maxc > 0) {
		i = int(rand() * ncell) % ncell
		if (!P[i])	# already done
			continue
		cmd = sprintf("printf '\033[%sH#'", P[i])
		system(cmd)	# _run_ printf(1) to slow display down
		delete P[i]	# remove done
		maxc--
	}
}

1.txt:

.___._....._...___...___.___.
.._.._._____.__.__.__.__.___.
._._._...___...___...____....
.___._._____._.___._._______.
.___._....._.__.__.__.___....

.___._______.___.___.____....
_._.________.._..__._.__.
__.___....._._._._.___._.....
_._.________.___._....._____.
.___._______.___._.___._....

2.txt

__.___.___._....
_._.__..__._.___.
.___._._._._.___.
....._.__.._.___.
.___._.___._....

3.txt:

__.
_._.
.___.
.....
.___.

.___.___.___....__....__.___.
.___.__._.__.___._.___._.___.
....._.___._....__....___....
.___._....._._____._________.
.___._.___._._____.______....

.___._....._.___.
..__._._____.___.
._._._...___._._.
.__.._._____.._..____..__..__..
.___._....._.___.____..__..__..



_...__...__...__....___...__.__._.___._...__...._...
.____.___._.__._.______.__._.__._._._._.__._.____.__.
.____.___._...__.._____.__._.__._.___._...__..___.__.
_...__...__.__._....___...___..__.___._.____...._...

RUN:

$ ./x.awk [1-3].txt

pfr

rvp
this is cool. Thank you!

oui

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all! 🎄🎆 🍻

flfederation

This is running in xterm on BSD, the graphical output is linked at the top.

# graphical output: https://i.ibb.co/L6QKMw1/tree.png

# py2 output: https://paste.gg/p/anonymous/
# 5608ace929c34335a280baf36fe76016/files/
# 4a33865b20034287bd25ad16bb2ed2ae/raw

# Copyright 2020 mn

# Permission to use, copy, modify, 
# and/or distribute this software 
# for any purpose with or without 
# fee is hereby granted.

# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" 
# AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL 
# WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS 
# SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED 
# WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND 
# FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 
# AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, 
# DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 
# DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER 
# RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA 
# OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION 
# OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER 
# TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR 
# IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR 
# PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

function oval w h s c
    for p -3.14159 3.14159 .001
        wp = p cos times s plus w int
        hp = p sin times s divby 5 plus h int
        now ; pset wp hp c
        next
    next 

function scirc s l
    count = 0
    w = 1
    h = s divby 2 plus 1
    for p -1.57079 1.57079 .03
        wp = p cos times s plus w int
        hp = p sin times s divby 2 plus h int
        ifequal hp l
            ifmore wp count
                count = wp
                next
            next
        next
    now return count
    next 

function spheroid w h s c o
    for each s 0 -2 
        l = scirc s each print
        hp = h plus each
        now ; oval w hp l c swap c o
        next
    next

python
    figcgapal[6] = (85,45,0)
    fig

now ; highlight 7 ; cls

for each 450 370 -2 
    now ; oval 500 each 32 6
    next

tree = 2
alt = 10
circ = 200
count = 0 

for each 370 120 -1
    now = circ minus 1.4 swap now circ
    now = count plus 1 swap now count
    ifmore count 25
        now ; circ plus 17 swap now circ
        count = 0
        now ; swap tree alt
        next
    now ; oval 500 each circ tree
    next

now spheroid 355 336 33 12 4
now spheroid 521 245 33 1 9

now spheroid 620 302 33 12 4
now spheroid 485 291 33 1 9

now spheroid 425 235 33 12 4
now spheroid 415 314 33 1 9

now spheroid 488 175 33 12 4
now spheroid 581 357 33 1 9

now spheroid 464 346 33 12 4

now ; locate 1 1

rvp

flfederation This is running in xterm on BSD, the graphical output is linked at the top.

That output looks neat, but, running the generated python file (using python2) just gives me coloured blocks running up the right-hand edge of the screen and numbers between 11 and 33 running up the left edge--on a white background. Is this supposed to work in a text console--(because I don't see any scaling being applied to the numbers passed to the functions)? Is it too late for Christmas?

flfederation

rvp Is it too late for Christmas?

No, I'm happy just one person looked at it and replied. I loved your awk thing and I made this for someone else and thought I'd post it here, though with timezones and all I think everybody had already been winding down Christmas or something by the time they might have seen it.

I never trust cut and paste completely, so I made sure to run the Python output code I posted since I'm sure nobody wants to compile the code I put up here-- I still wanted to show what the code and the result looked like.

At the resolution needed, you're going to want to run xterm with the font size (CTRL-right-click) set to "unreadable" and the window will need to be at least 750x950. Surprisingly nothing gave me the text geometry so I copied and pasted it to a text file and ran wc, it had about 458 lines (including extra whitespace) and 203179 bytes, so I figure the text resolution is about 444x458. That means each text "pixel" is about (or exactly) 2x2 graphical pixels.

My windows are tiled so "half of a big screen" at that font seems to work. If you have a "big screen" it is probably bigger than what I call a "big screen", but 750x950 should do it. I assumed that people would just look at this https://i.ibb.co/L6QKMw1/tree.png -- it's cool that you ran the code.

rvp

flfederation Ho! Ho! Ho! With the correct font, font-size and geometry this works as advertised. Here's how anyone can run this:

xterm -fn -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--2-0-100-100-c-0-iso10646-1 -g 800x600 -e 'python2 /tmp/raw'

Use the py2 output URL, above, then save the python file (Ctrl-S) as /tmp/raw

flfederation

rvp Fantastic! Thanks for the trick that makes the pixels even smaller.

This language used to support Pygame-- in fact the graphics commands automatically used Pygame if it was available, but switched to text emulation if it wasn't. There were also commands to do text by default and switch back and forth.

If I'd known there was a way to make the text even smaller in xterm, I would have opted for that and made the tree and ornaments "taller" in that geometry. It's a bit stubby this way, but I like the smaller "pixels".

rvp

flfederation It's a bit stubby this way

Yeah, I noticed that. A consequence of chosen font and its aspect-ratio. A better approximation to your picture is by using a TrueType font like DejaVu and a font-size of 2. But, then you get a huge xterm window...and I don't want a General Sherman in my living-room for Christmas.

Nick0lis

Happy New Year to you all!

plzBugMeNot42

Hey there,
I couldnt rly find a good place to post, which works, but this thread looks pretty unspecific replywise.
I'm quite happy, that i found this forum, cause it looks pretty perfect for some questions i have, as a bsd noob/newcomer.
First thing after reading the guidelines, and searching for existing topics, was wanting to start asking some questions, so i went to "General", as it is the most appropriate place, but i just cant find any button to create a topic! Just like in any other more specific subcategory!
Is there a permission manager, and i need to be whitelisted first, and a disclaimer is just missing?
Is it just to late, i drank to much beer, and am a bit blind?
I verified by mail, also, but nothing changes!
Am a bit perplex right now, feel like i can understand my dad in front of a PC the first time, could anyone help?

Edit: I cant reply to topics, finally after half an hour or so of searching and fiddling around a disclaimer for this post, "Awaiting approval", that's helpfull, thx.
@Admin, @Jay right?, could you plz implement some form of disclaimer telling fresh users about this permission thing, if i wasn't blind?

Jay

plzBugMeNot42 okay i will see what i can do about approval notice.

oui

It's that time of the year again - Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to y'all! 🍻 🎅 🎄 🎆

           ____
          /    \
 ._.     /___/\ \
:(_):    |6.6| \|
  \\     '.-.'  O
   \\____.-"-.____
   '----|     |--.\
        |==[]=|  _\\_
         \___/    /|\
         // \\
        //   \\
        \\    \\  
        _\\    \\__
       (___|    \__)

Jay

oui Merrry Christmas and Happy New Year to all 🎊🎄

yeti

Some nerdy Newtonmas notes (NNN?):

We wish you a nerdy Xmas!

JuvenalUrbino

A Merry ASCII Christmas from the Super Dimension Fortress (a.k.a. SDF.org) https://toobnix.org/w/8z3oLqaFk6bVabE3k3beku

nia

happy solstice and new year, unitedbsd fist bump

Jay

nia :firstbump: 🙂