i used to do lots of graphics, and love these bugs. They give an enjoyable insight to the development process and algorithms as the progress through a project!
I had a pentium 1 laptop in like 2007, running NetBSD. One time it crashed and the screen filled with ASCII smiley faces. Still my favorite crash to date.
kristopolous•9mo ago
Also see the errors section in Prueitt's classic 1984 book on computer graphics
Reminds me of lcamtuf's exhibition of unusual TCP packets or something like that
albert_e•9mo ago
The images are all loading very slowly for me. Did they embed full size images using IMG tags instead of thumbnails? Reminds me of the first HTML pages I authored in the 90s.
fmxsh•9mo ago
Interesting! While it is about accidental art caused by bugs, it had me think of what bugs significantly defined part of my user experience throughout life. I know I have experienced a lot of bugs, but can't come to think of any particular one—only bugs of generic company software forcing employees to invent counteractive routines that then become habit. The habits can be seen as a kind of performance art, on part of the bug, similarly to how bugs create the accidental art the article highlights... Accidental performance art with unwilling humans as performers, where the very same humans are also subjected to the art.
cluckindan•9mo ago
The PDF ink streaks one looks like a cellular automaton.
twak•9mo ago
i have my own archive of my own bugs/"artworks" - https://twak.org/glitches-in-the-worlds-geometry-engine/