thoughts at one am while procrastinating term papers

[zwol]

... why is this generated postscript such crap?

... why does every postscript-generating utility on the planet generate crap?
... why is it that i can write a 40-line shell script that produces an eps file ONE TENTH THE SIZE of what everything else i try produces? (except convert. but what convert produced, dvips mangled.)

... why is there is no standalone utility for encoding data in the forms that postscript's "filters" like, thus forcing me to embed a glob of nasty postscript in the aforementioned shell script?
... why doesn't gs allow for an easier way of embedding globs of postscript in shell scripts?

... am I the only person in the entire world who cares about these things?

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[melbournite.livejournal.com]

... am I the only person in the entire world who cares about these things?

Apparently not. I showed this post to Sean (aldren) and he immediately looked this up and said I should post it in reply. It's pretty. I personally, um, know nothing about postscript though.

/p/floor/S/add/A/copy/n/exch/i/index/J/ifelse/r/roll/e/sqrt/H{count 2 idiv exch
repeat}def/q/gt/h/exp/t/and/C/neg/T/dup/Y/pop/d/mul/w/div/s/cvi/R/rlineto{load
def}H/c(j1idj2id42rd)/G(140N7)/Q(31C85d4)/B(V0R0VRVC0R)/K(WCVW)/U(4C577d7)300
T translate/I(3STinTinTinY)/l(993dC99Cc96raN)/k(X&E9!&1!J)/Z(blxC1SdC9n5dh)/j
(43r)/O(Y43d9rE3IaN96r63rvx2dcaN)/z(&93r6IQO2Z4o3AQYaNlxS2w!)/N(3A3Axe1nwc)/W
270 def/L(1i2A00053r45hNvQXz&vUX&UOvQXzFJ!FJ!J)/D(cjS5o32rS4oS3o)/v(6A)/b(7o)
/F(&vGYx4oGbxSd0nq&3IGbxSGY4Ixwca3AlvvUkbQkdbGYx4ofwnw!&vlx2w13wSb8Z4wS!J!)/X
(4I3Ax52r8Ia3A3Ax65rTdCS4iw5o5IxnwTTd32rCST0q&eCST0q&D1!&EYE0!J!&EYEY0!J0q)/V
3 def/x(jd5o32rd4odSS)/a(1CD)/E(YYY)/o(1r)/f(nY9wn7wpSps1t1S){[n{( )T 0 4 3 r
put T(/)q{T(9)q{cvn}{s}J}{($)q{[}{]}J}J cvx}forall]cvx def}H K{K{L setgray
moveto B fill}for Y}for showpage

[zwol.livejournal.com]

cooooool.

I'm not even gonna try to figure out how it works, though.