Dear monks,

I post this under meditation because this is not really a question by me, even if some question mark is in the text.

Art needs restauration and restauration needs keen eyes and gentle hands. We have here at the monastery precious and invaluable masterpieces ruining as the time passes.

The most incredible things I ever seen in Perl is 3-D Stereogram, Self replicating source. by the genial monk Toodles but unfortunately it just run on perl 5.8 (or as someone said in 5.10).

Is some monk able to spot why this happens?

Is someone able to make this masterpiece run as expected on modern perl versions? Infact it doesnt fail on 5.26 but doesnt produce the stereogram effect: only sparse lines.

L*

UPDATE in 2023 vitoco++ fixed it for modern perls. Thanks

There are no rules, there are no thumbs..
Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.

In reply to challenge: Perl's art restauration by Discipulus

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