A c++ Program for Valentines day

[sandy]

Hey guys,

I know this is silly, but I just wanted to take some break from work. I
was just wodering if its possible to write a c++ program that can print
"iloveyou" in shape of 'heart' when executed. The impotant thing is
that, the program should not show any kind of words related to it, i
mean the program should not be understandable at the very first sight
the user goes through the code. It will be gr8 if something more
creative is achieved out of this idea. Think about it. Let me know if
its possible to make a code that can interact with user and print the
results for just one particular kind of input, and print it in a
beautiful way. I am not good enough in c++ to do that, so i was just
wondering someone can help me out with it. Thank you.

sandy

[Mike Wahler]

"sandy" <sa************ ***@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:11******** **************@ o13g2000cwo.goo glegroups.com.. .

Hey guys,

I know this is silly, but I just wanted to take some break from work. I
was just wodering if its possible to write a c++ program that can print
"iloveyou" in shape of 'heart' when executed.
Certainly.
The impotant thing is
Don't say that on Valentine's Day. :-)
that, the program should not show any kind of words related to it, i
mean the program should not be understandable at the very first sight
the user goes through the code. It will be gr8 if something more
creative is achieved out of this idea. Think about it. Let me know if
its possible to make a code that can interact with user and print the
results for just one particular kind of input, and print it in a
beautiful way. I am not good enough in c++ to do that, so i was just
wondering someone can help me out with it. Thank you.

Get some graph paper, and draw the characters (perhaps asterisks) of
the output. After that it should be simple to write some loops to
output various character sequences. If you want to further obfuscate
the source, put random amounts of it in separate functions.

-Mike

[Daniel T.]

In article <mD************ ******@newsread 2.news.pas.eart hlink.net>,
"Mike Wahler" <mk******@mkwah ler.net> wrote:

"sandy" <sa************ ***@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:11******** **************@ o13g2000cwo.goo glegroups.com.. .

Hey guys,

I know this is silly, but I just wanted to take some break from work. I
was just wodering if its possible to write a c++ program that can print
"iloveyou" in shape of 'heart' when executed.

Certainly.

The impotant thing is

Don't say that on Valentine's Day. :-)

that, the program should not show any kind of words related to it, i
mean the program should not be understandable at the very first sight
the user goes through the code. It will be gr8 if something more
creative is achieved out of this idea. Think about it. Let me know if
its possible to make a code that can interact with user and print the
results for just one particular kind of input, and print it in a
beautiful way. I am not good enough in c++ to do that, so i was just
wondering someone can help me out with it. Thank you.

Get some graph paper, and draw the characters (perhaps asterisks) of
the output. After that it should be simple to write some loops to
output various character sequences. If you want to further obfuscate
the source, put random amounts of it in separate functions.

You could also build the "i love you" string from ascii values or
individual chars that are distributed in the code.

--
Magic depends on tradition and belief. It does not welcome observation,
nor does it profit by experiment. On the other hand, science is based
on experience; it is open to correction by observation and experiment.

[red floyd]

sandy wrote:

Hey guys,

I know this is silly, but I just wanted to take some break from work. I
was just wodering if its possible to write a c++ program that can print
"iloveyou" in shape of 'heart' when executed. The impotant thing is
that, the program should not show any kind of words related to it, i
mean the program should not be understandable at the very first sight
the user goes through the code. It will be gr8 if something more
creative is achieved out of this idea. Think about it. Let me know if
its possible to make a code that can interact with user and print the
results for just one particular kind of input, and print it in a
beautiful way. I am not good enough in c++ to do that, so i was just
wondering someone can help me out with it. Thank you.

sandy

Go to www.ioccc.org, they may have something similar. I know they have
stuff that does circles with pi....

[jjcp]

hey just a thought you could type cast the int nubers of the charaters
you want to print out. that should be fun :)
Daniel T. wrote:

In article <mD************ ******@newsread 2.news.pas.eart hlink.net>,
"Mike Wahler" <mk******@mkwah ler.net> wrote:

"sandy" <sa************ ***@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:11****** *************** *@o13g2000cwo.g ooglegroups.com ...

Hey guys,

I know this is silly, but I just wanted to take some break from work. I
was just wodering if its possible to write a c++ program that can print
"iloveyou" in shape of 'heart' when executed.

Certainly.

The impotant thing is

Don't say that on Valentine's Day. :-)

that, the program should not show any kind of words related to it, i
mean the program should not be understandable at the very first sight
the user goes through the code. It will be gr8 if something more
creative is achieved out of this idea. Think about it. Let me know if
its possible to make a code that can interact with user and print the
results for just one particular kind of input, and print it in a
beautiful way. I am not good enough in c++ to do that, so i was just
wondering someone can help me out with it. Thank you.

Get some graph paper, and draw the characters (perhaps asterisks) of
the output. After that it should be simple to write some loops to
output various character sequences. If you want to further obfuscate
the source, put random amounts of it in separate functions.

You could also build the "i love you" string from ascii values or
individual chars that are distributed in the code.

[sandy]

Thank you guys, i will check out every advise u guys have me. thank
you,

Sandy

sandy wrote:

Hey guys,

I know this is silly, but I just wanted to take some break from work. I
was just wodering if its possible to write a c++ program that can print
"iloveyou" in shape of 'heart' when executed. The impotant thing is
that, the program should not show any kind of words related to it, i
mean the program should not be understandable at the very first sight
the user goes through the code. It will be gr8 if something more
creative is achieved out of this idea. Think about it. Let me know if
its possible to make a code that can interact with user and print the
results for just one particular kind of input, and print it in a
beautiful way. I am not good enough in c++ to do that, so i was just
wondering someone can help me out with it. Thank you.

sandy

[sandy]

Thank you guys, i will check out every advise u guys have gave me.
thank you,

Sandy

sandy wrote:

Hey guys,

I know this is silly, but I just wanted to take some break from work. I
was just wodering if its possible to write a c++ program that can print
"iloveyou" in shape of 'heart' when executed. The impotant thing is
that, the program should not show any kind of words related to it, i
mean the program should not be understandable at the very first sight
the user goes through the code. It will be gr8 if something more
creative is achieved out of this idea. Think about it. Let me know if
its possible to make a code that can interact with user and print the
results for just one particular kind of input, and print it in a
beautiful way. I am not good enough in c++ to do that, so i was just
wondering someone can help me out with it. Thank you.

sandy

[Jerry Coffin]

sandy wrote:

Hey guys,

I know this is silly, but I just wanted to take some break from work. I
was just wodering if its possible to write a c++ program that can print
"iloveyou" in shape of 'heart' when executed. The impotant thing is
that, the program should not show any kind of words related to it, i
mean the program should not be understandable at the very first sight
the user goes through the code. It will be gr8 if something more
creative is achieved out of this idea. Think about it. Let me know if
its possible to make a code that can interact with user and print the
results for just one particular kind of input, and print it in a
beautiful way. I am not good enough in c++ to do that, so i was just
wondering someone can help me out with it. Thank you.

One minor point: you've gotten a couple of hints to embed the string as
hex, decimal, etc. numbers in your source code. While this can
obfuscate the source code itself (a little) it has no effect on the
executable -- there the string will stil show up just as if you'd
written it normally.

There are quite a few ways of making it harder to understand. For
example, you could use what is probably the oldest cipher known to man
-- just subtract 3 (or whatever) from each number in the string, and
then add 3 to each character as you print it out.

If you want to make it a bit more complex, you can use a slightly more
complex cipher -- for example, use two strings, and XOR the characters
together as you print them out.

OTOH, instead of obfuscating the string, you could just obfuscate the
code. For example, something like this might be a start in the right
general direction:

#include<iostre am>

char *c[] = { "HILO", "NOTYOU", "TRI", "SHOVE" };
char **cp[] = { c+3, c+2, c+1, c };
char ***cpp = cp;

int main() {
std::cout << **++cpp+2;
std::cout << *--*++cpp+2;
std::cout << *cpp[-2]+3;
std::cout << cpp[-1][-1]+3;
return 0;
}

Obfuscation doesn't require #define's!

--
Later,
Jerry.

[int2str]

sandy wrote:

Hey guys,

I know this is silly, but I just wanted to take some break from work. I
was just wodering if its possible to write a c++ program that can print
"iloveyou" in shape of 'heart' when executed. The impotant thing is
that, the program should not show any kind of words related to it,

Here's a start...
I didn't make much effort in hiding the string though. But otherwise it
should be pretty hard to figure out. Compiles without warning on GCC
3.4.4 with -W -Wall -pedantic.

--- snipp ---
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
int main(){std::str ing g=" I LOVE C++!";
char t[]={0x15,0x0C,0x3 F,0x0F,0xE3,0xF C,0xFF,0xBF,
0xFF,0xFF,0xFF, 0xFF,0xFF,0xFF, 0xFF,0xBF,0xFF, 0xF8,
0xFF,0xFF,0x83, 0xFF,0xF8,0x07, 0xFF,0x00,0x1F, 0xF0,
0x00,0x3E,0x00, 0x00,0x40,0x00} ;char w=t[0],x=w,h=
t[1],y=h,l=g.length ();unsigned i=0;while(y--){x=w;
while(x--){unsigned b=2+i/8,o=7-i%8;std::cout<< (t[
b]&(1<<o)?g[i%l]:' ');i++;}std::co ut<<"\n";}}
--- /snipp ---

Cheers,
Andre

[sandy]

Hi guys,

Very good ideas guys, you helped me get started. Thank you very much.

sandy

sandy wrote:

Hey guys,

I know this is silly, but I just wanted to take some break from work. I
was just wodering if its possible to write a c++ program that can print
"iloveyou" in shape of 'heart' when executed. The impotant thing is
that, the program should not show any kind of words related to it, i
mean the program should not be understandable at the very first sight
the user goes through the code. It will be gr8 if something more
creative is achieved out of this idea. Think about it. Let me know if
its possible to make a code that can interact with user and print the
results for just one particular kind of input, and print it in a
beautiful way. I am not good enough in c++ to do that, so i was just
wondering someone can help me out with it. Thank you.

sandy