Spinning Globe With Just 1K Of Self-replicating Javascript Code - Advanced Tech Tips Blog

Spinning Globe With Just 1K Of Self-replicating Javascript Code

Posted: 24 Nov 2013 03:19 AM PST

The mind-blowing javascript globe animation shared below is not just awesome because of it's compact code size of just 1K, but also because it is a Quine, which is by definition "A computer program which takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output. The standard terms for these programs in the computability theory and computer science literature are self-replicating programs, self-reproducing programs, and self-copying programs." Which means, the code you are seeing below is the exact code which is used to generate it.