#!/bin/env ruby # Bunny - Print a large ASCII-pixel bunny icon made up of the letters # of the word BUNNY. # This is a recreation of bunny.bas in Ruby that attempts to remain # relatively faithful to the design of the original program. # # The BASIC version works by storing the image as a series of pairs of # numbers containing ranges of text columns that will need to be # filled in with non-blank characters. # # For example, the first few entries in the block of DATA statements are: # # 1,2,-1,0,2,45,50,-1 ... # # * 1,2 means "write letters from columns 1 to 2 # * -1 starts a new line # * 0,2 draws letters between columns 0 and 2 # * 45,50 draws letters between columns 45 and 50 # * -1 starts a new line # # ...and so on. # # We keep the data statements as they are and redraw the image using # them. (Well, we drop the last one because it's the end-of-data flag # and Ruby is perfectly effective at finding the end of the list.) # # One tricky bit: BASIC has a function called 'tab()' which sets the # output column to the given position and which the BASIC version uses # to pick the columns to write to. Ruby doesn't have an equivalent # feature (well, not without a *lot* more complexity). Fortunately, # the data always draws from left to right so we just keep track of # the last column written to and then add some spaces to advance to # where we need to be. # # Do the thing. (We put it in a function to keep from spewing global # variables all over the place. It's not really necessary here but # it's good practice.) def main # Print the heading. Note the highly advanced lower-case letters. puts ' '*33 + "Bunny" puts ' '*15 + "Creative Computing Morristown, New Jersey" # Print blank lines. print "\n\n\n" # The positions to write; this is ripped from the BASIC program's # DATA statements. positions = [ 1,2,-1,0,2,45,50,-1,0,5,43,52,-1,0,7,41,52,-1, 1,9,37,50,-1,2,11,36,50,-1,3,13,34,49,-1,4,14,32,48,-1, 5,15,31,47,-1,6,16,30,45,-1,7,17,29,44,-1,8,19,28,43,-1, 9,20,27,41,-1,10,21,26,40,-1,11,22,25,38,-1,12,22,24,36,-1, 13,34,-1,14,33,-1,15,31,-1,17,29,-1,18,27,-1, 19,26,-1,16,28,-1,13,30,-1,11,31,-1,10,32,-1, 8,33,-1,7,34,-1,6,13,16,34,-1,5,12,16,35,-1, 4,12,16,35,-1,3,12,15,35,-1,2,35,-1,1,35,-1, 2,34,-1,3,34,-1,4,33,-1,6,33,-1,10,32,34,34,-1, 14,17,19,25,28,31,35,35,-1,15,19,23,30,36,36,-1, 14,18,21,21,24,30,37,37,-1,13,18,23,29,33,38,-1, 12,29,31,33,-1,11,13,17,17,19,19,22,22,24,31,-1, 10,11,17,18,22,22,24,24,29,29,-1, 22,23,26,29,-1,27,29,-1,28,29,-1, ] # The text we're writing. text = "BUNNY" # Draw the bunny. last_pos = 0 while positions.size > 0 first = positions.shift # If we've found -1, start a new line if first == -1 puts last_pos = 0 next end # Advance to start of the range print ' '*(first - last_pos) last_pos = first # Now, draw pixels: second = positions.shift for i in first .. second print text[i % text.size] # choose the letter according to the column last_pos += 1 end end # Print the final blank line puts end main