This 'beta' icon for codegolf.SE is pretty lame.
So, in order to create a framework for my own proposal (I dare you to do better!), I ask "What's a good icon for Programming Puzzles and Code-Golf?"
This 'beta' icon for codegolf.SE is pretty lame.
So, in order to create a framework for my own proposal (I dare you to do better!), I ask "What's a good icon for Programming Puzzles and Code-Golf?"
Instead of an icon which represents puzzles, why not an icon which is a puzzle? Maybe something encoded in the 256 possible pixels of the 16x16 icon?
EDIT: Thinking about it further, 256 bits could hold 32 ASCII characters, which might be enough to hold a J or Golfscript program...
EDIT2: :-) The ridiculousness continues...
Maybe convert the following to an icon?
0100111101100011
0011011011011100
1001110000110111
0110011001000011
1101011110000010
0001101000111101
1011110111111011
1101101110011011
1010001000010101
1000100001100010
0111000011001011
1001101001000111
0000110110111001
1101000100100111
1111011010100011
1110101001010000
With apologies to Gnibbler for appropriating his code.
The icon would look like this:
Picking up Gareth's suggestion, why not make the icon a tiny bit of Piet code? Codel size could be 2 to be a bit easier to distinguish from noise, albeit with the problem that less code can be written.
But I think esoteric programming languages exemplify the recreational part of what we're doing here quite well, regardless of whether they are good for golfing or solving puzzles (Piet is definitely under-represented here).
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and then goes into an infinite loop apparently. Casey created a Piet IDE and debugger (PietCreator) which from what I saw so far is much better than the other existing options.
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Stealing Keith's idea, here's a "code-grinder" constructed by reversing the Meta-Stack Overflow icon, adding some space for a "grinding chamber", an output chute, and some smaller things coming out.
"Puzzle" is a lot easier to convey in a small icon while still having space for some code than "golf".
I'm probably awful designer, but I decided to try using U+26F3 as an icon.
In 16x16, it looks way nicer.
I was thinking of some sort of code grinder. I'm not sure you could make it very small and still be legible, though.
John Tenniel's Illustration for Alice in Wonderland portraying Alice attempting to play Croquet with a flamingo and two hedgehogs.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/114/114-h/114-h.htm#alice30
Perhaps with "x=x+1" on the hedgehog running away and "++x" on the one underfoot.