C++ Wallpaper

[S6k9GNh0]

Hit me up with some wallpaper please! Mainly towards the topic of C++ (or C (if you're that picky) and/or any programming related wallpaper for that matter).

[Disch]

"Hit me up for X" means to ask you for X.

Are you offering to give us wallpaper or do you want wallpaper from us? ;P

[S6k9GNh0]

Translation

"Hit me up" ---- Can be syonymous to "Provide to me <the following>"

"some wallpaper please" ---- The wallpaper is what I wish to be provided as well as a proper remark that resembles me possibly begging or just being appropriate.

"Mainly towards the topic of C++" ---- A selfish filter on what I wish to be provided during this topic.

[firedraco]

I think the problem is "Hit me up" can also mean "Contact me".

As for the actual question...I don't have any...:P

[Seraphimsan]

I've looked time and time again for one. I've never found a decent one, and I've rarely found any remotely related to the topic

[kevinkjt2000]

Found one generated by wordle http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/languages/C++.html

This one is kind of a cool neon http://www.zortech.com/

[Disch]

computerquip wrote:

"Hit me up" ---- Can be syonymous to "Provide to me <the following>"

I've never heard it used this way before. =P

But a quick check to urban dictionary confirms you are correct.

[Duthomhas]

http://beust.com/pics/cplusplus-0x.png

[ultifinitus]

I could make ya one, but I'd need something in return... Liiike a program =) Bartering FTW

[thepedestrian]

Two wallpapers I created real quick. C++ related because they contain the words c++. =)

Enjoy!

(1024x768)
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/215/26414208.jpg
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/175/63688513.jpg

[ultifinitus]

Oh come on thepedestrian you're ruining my bartering deal here!

[thepedestrian]

HAHAHAHA. Sorry! :( ;)

[matsom]

Google image search coughed up some interesting results :s

http://www.google.com/search?q=c%2B%2B+wallpaper&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=a6WvTfafN4TQrQevgdX4CA&ved=0CBgQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=880

[Albatross]

There go ultifinitus's bargaining attempts.

-Albatross

[ultifinitus]

Gahhhh... Dang. Hahaha how about a procedural image generator?

[S6k9GNh0]

All of these wallpapers are much to "bright" for my taste. I'm a rather dark person and since I see nothing of the sort, I'm not sure what to do :/

[Seraphimsan]

Make your own? I posted this same topic some time last year. Chrisname suggested that I use Unix commandline tool called 'dd'

The way you'd use it to make a wallpaper is as such.

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/path/to/where/you/want/to/write/the/image.bmp bs=LxW

that last parameter, you'll want to swap L and W with the Length and width of you image, and then multiply both of them by the size of a pixel in memory (so if a pixel only has an RGB value, and each color takes up a byte, you'd have a 24bit pixel)

After it is done, you will then open the bitmap in a hex editor, plug in the header and necessary data for your image. and voila! you have a TRUE programmers wallpaper!



edit: actually for it to be a true programmers wallpaper, I would forgo the use of dd, and instead write your own program that opens a bmp file and writes to each and every point of it random values...the rest of the process would be the same.

[ultifinitus]

@seraphimsan: I actually started doing this the other day (bmp creation from scratch) at the same time I was making my HTTP proxy... Both I felt like I was reinventing the wheel();

[chrisname]

Rather than put bs=LxW I would put bs=width count=height and you'll copy the image line-by-line.

[Albatross]

This isn't exactly a programming wallpaper per-se, but here's one I generated a few weeks ago while mucking about with Inkscape, if anyone's interested. It's not the least distracting desktop in the world, but I personally like it.

http://i56.tinypic.com/25pijoh.png

-Albatross