Abyss Knight » PHP http://www.abyssknight.com version 9 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:31:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The Mona Lisa in PHP http://www.abyssknight.com/2009/06/09/the-mona-lisa-in-php/ http://www.abyssknight.com/2009/06/09/the-mona-lisa-in-php/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:25:33 +0000 Abyss http://www.abyssknight.com/?p=157 Recently on Hacker News it has become common place to bash PHP. There was an article posted to the site with a title of “At 14, is PHP Finally Growing Up?” which started a slew of flame bait. I took it upon myself to post this morsel of a comment:

I would like to argue the C language argument here. If I want to shoot myself in the foot, the language should let me. If I want to paint the Mona Lisa, the language should let me. PHP does that.

That prompted a few snarky remarks about which resolutions and to what extent PHP could paint the Mona Lisa.

So I did it.

Full size: http://williamriggins.com/mona.php?x=400&y=571

Favicon Size: http://williamriggins.com/mona.php?x=10&y=10

Code (minus base64′d image constant): http://pastie.org/506643

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