(Precalculations done and removed from the code; functions assimilated to where they're used; variables renamed.)

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

$_ = "Just another Perl hacker";

my %bitmap = (
    A => [
        0b01110,
        0b10001,
        0b11111,
        0b10001,
        0b10001,
    ],
    C => [
        0b01110,
        0b10001,
        0b10000,
        0b10001,
        0b01110,
    ],
    E => [
        0b11111,
        0b10000,
        0b11110,
        0b10000,
        0b11111,
    ],
    H => [
        0b10001,
        0b10001,
        0b11111,
        0b10001,
        0b10001,
    ],
    J => [
        0b11111,
        0b00100,
        0b00100,
        0b00100,
        0b11000,
    ],
    K => [
        0b10001,
        0b10010,
        0b11100,
        0b10010,
        0b10001,
    ],
    L => [
        0b10000,
        0b10000,
        0b10000,
        0b10000,
        0b11111,
    ],
    N => [
        0b10001,
        0b11001,
        0b10101,
        0b10011,
        0b10001,
    ],
    O => [
        0b01110,
        0b10001,
        0b10001,
        0b10001,
        0b01110,
    ],
    P => [
        0b11110,
        0b10001,
        0b11110,
        0b10000,
        0b10000,
    ],
    R => [
        0b11110,
        0b10001,
        0b11110,
        0b10010,
        0b10001,
    ],
    S => [
        0b01111,
        0b10000,
        0b01110,
        0b00001,
        0b11110,
    ],
    T => [
        0b11111,
        0b00100,
        0b00100,
        0b00100,
        0b00100,
    ],
    U => [
        0b10001,
        0b10001,
        0b10001,
        0b10001,
        0b01110,
    ],
);

for (split /\s/, uc) {
    my @ee;
    for my $char (/./g) {
        my @rastered = map {
            my $bitrow = $_;
            my $pixrow;
            for (16, 8, 4, 2, 1) {
                if ($bitrow > $_ - 1) {
                    $bitrow -= $_;
                    $pixrow .= $char;
                }
                else {
                    $pixrow .= ' ';
                }
            }
            $pixrow . ' ';
        } @{ $bitmap{$char} };
        $ee[$_] .= $rastered[$_] for 0 .. 4;
    }
    print join ("\n", @ee) . "\n\n";
}

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Not very obfuscated per se; the translation was mostly straightforward, mechanical work.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re: bigger is better (deobfuscated) by Aristotle
in thread bigger is better by iamcal

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