Rhizome | The Cut

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One day, Andreja Andric found an interesting program on the Internet. The program was only 16 bytes long. It was on the site of demo group farbrausch (http://www.farb-rausch.com) under title "fr-016: bytes". This program performs an attractive animated demo with ever-growing circles on the screen. The hex dump of this program is: B0 13 CD 10 C4 2F AA 11 F8 64 13 06 6C 04 EB F6. Andreja Andric changed the hex dump in the following way: he eliminated 11 after AA, and left all the other bytes unchanged. The new demo outperformed the previous one in two aspects: 1) it is one byte shorter (it is now 15 bytes long), and, 2) instead of drawing ever-growing circles, it now performs a wide variety of attractive visual effects. In this way Andreja Andric succeeded to produce a very short, elegant, original and clever work. Everyone should applaud to him!