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[ENDED] Code Golf Contest #13: A Picture's Worth 140 Chars
Runer112:
The quality of the compressed image should be an important scoring metric, but it cannot really be quantified according to a formula. I'm familiar with this kind of contest being categorized as a "popularity contest" rather than a code golf contest. If you really do want to run with this contest idea, you might need to re-evaluate how scoring is done.
Also, this contest has basically be done before on another site, only with the requirement that the 140 characters be printable ASCII (0x20-0x7E).
JWinslow23:
--- Quote from: Runer112 on October 15, 2014, 04:10:22 pm ---The quality of the compressed image should be an important scoring metric, but it cannot really be quantified according to a formula. I'm familiar with this kind of contest being categorized as a "popularity contest" rather than a code golf contest. If you really do want to run with this contest idea, you might need to re-evaluate how scoring is done.
Also, this contest has basically be done before on another site, only with the requirement that the 140 characters be printable ASCII (0x20-0x7E).
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Again with the bad contest...but why didn't you warn me two contests ago, when I freaking announced it? :P
JWinslow23:
...literally NO ONE submitted. Not even me. :'( (then again, this was a bad idea for a contest)
Should I shut down the contest, or should we cross this one out from our history?
DJ Omnimaga:
Considering Omni now averages at 10 posts a day every weekend (which is even lower than in 2008), I guess I am not surprised, but again perhaps the idea didn't interest many people or the deadline is too short. Perhaps try to make them bi-weekly or monthly during the rest of the school year? It might also be the fact that it's the 13th contest so inevitably interest die down after a while.
I would say extend the deadline for now, especially that the Months of Trolling have started.
IMHO the contest is quite hard because I can't seem to figure out how someone can compress a PNG under 140 bytes unless it's a ridiculously small sprite image or Atari-like material. >.<
JWinslow23:
--- Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on October 21, 2014, 06:43:01 pm ---Considering Omni now averages at 10 posts a day every weekend (which is even lower than in 2008), I guess I am not surprised, but again perhaps the idea didn't interest many people or the deadline is too short. Perhaps try to make them bi-weekly or monthly during the rest of the school year? It might also be the fact that it's the 13th contest so inevitably interest die down after a while.
I would say extend the deadline for now, especially that the Months of Trolling have started.
IMHO the contest is quite hard because I can't seem to figure out how someone can compress a PNG under 140 bytes unless it's a ridiculously small sprite image or Atari-like material. >.<
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It's not compressing a whole image, you can reduce the quality, or perhaps divide the image into triangles of color...eh, it was based off a popularity contest on StackExchange...bad idea.
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