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What Would Your Code Look Like as a Painting?

Is your code a Pollock? A Picasso? An O'Keefe? Or maybe it's an Edvard Munch! Unleash your inner artists today and tell us: If your code could be transformed into a painting, what would it look like? Would it be a vibrant and bold masterpiece, or a delicate and intricate composition?

Share your creative vision and let's see what kind of colorful code we can come up with!


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Daniel Schulz

A realistic painting of a plate of pasta, with some cheese and a grate and onions in the background.

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Dimitrios Desyllas

It lacks sauce or kechup.

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Ahmed Castro

Just like his code.

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Nabil Alamin

🤷‍♂️...would be a pretty interesting gimmick if a generative ai tool could this

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As Manjaka Josvah

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Ben Halpern

That would be a fun gimmick

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Jane Ori

Code always looks best the moment it's written haha
Maybe feels like it looks like this 3D CSS scene:

Animated 3D CSS Artwork

A few years later though... who knows how you'll feel about it ^^;;

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Andy Piper

I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships, motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways?

-- Flynn

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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

A Pollack???
Pollack

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Ben Halpern

Lol

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arutonee

The prompt immediately made me think of Piet.

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ByteCodeProcessor

Stick figure.