I think that this is an excellent obfu, but I find the requirement to reset my terminal size to exactly 80 annoying. Here is a reworked version that handles the carrige return and clear screen better IMO. Good Work!

For them that like large terminals:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
while(1){$:=' 'x2E3;$a+=.01;$b+=.03;$~=(sin$a+sin$b)/10+.2;system(
($^O eq 'MSWin32')?'cls':'clear');t(40.5,0,-11/7);my @rows=split(
//,$:);my $i=0;for(@rows){print $_;if($i eq 80){print "\n";$i=0;}$
i++;}}sub t{my($x,$y,$d,$D)=@_;($x,$y)=l($x,$y,$d,11/++$D);$D<4||
return;t($x,$y,$d-.6-$~*$d,$D);t($x,$y,$d+.6-$~*$d,$D--)}sub l{my(
$x,$y)=@_;for(0..pop) {p($x+=cos$_[2],$y+=sin$_[2])}($x,$y)}sub p{
substr($:,int(pop)*80+int(pop),1)='#'}

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Runs much slower though... a steadier wind perhaps? :)

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In reply to Re: Animated Fractal Tree by ktross
in thread Animated Fractal Tree by reasonablekeith

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