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Rules are in Dutch, so I did a quick translation of the most important parts

Generate Mondriaan's Victory Boogie Woogie in code

Everyone who can make squares appear on a screen can join until March 7th 2013

Submit your code to elegant@setup.nl

  Rules

  * Any programming language can be used
  * Please do try to document your code as good as possible and add a little description how it works, as the judges will not speak all programming languages
  * Please add a little manual on how to run your program on the judges' machine
  * Code will remain secret until the deadline of March 7th 2013
  * After the deadline all code will be published on Github, licensed under MIT license and with proper attribution to the author
  * Your submission must consist of the following:
    * Sourcecode
    * Output of your program (image)
    * Short description of the algorithm used
    * Contact details


Thank you!

Wikipedia says Victory Boogie Woogie is unfinished. Should submissions produce a finished version of the painting?


"It is a kind of demoscene contest, where beauty come first. You do not have to produce a one-on-one copy of the painting. The jury rates on quality and creativity of the used algorithms."


As a side note, the Google translation from Dutch to English seems pretty bad. I submitted a few improved translations; I did not know this feature existed before, and I'm curious how it works behind the scenes. Presumably a human has to read them to verify they are correct; I don't know Dutch, so I am making educated guesses based on the existing translation and online Dutch to English dictionaries.


And anyone can enter? You don't have to be Dutch / speak Dutch?


There's no such rule on the website.

If you'd like to participate you might want to send and email to find out if you're eligible to enter. Or consider it just an intellectual challenge ;-)




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