Pgmpietoncracklang

==== "..i/^{File:Pgmpietoncrack.}png" ==== ^{<--- this is actually the name of the lang...} > a.k.a "^{Greyscale Piet on Crack}.^"
PGM Piet on Crack is the name of an esolang which refers to the netpbm format for greymaps. Piet is a stack-based esoteric programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings. It uses 20 colors, of which 18 are related cyclically through a lightness cycle and a hue cycle. A single stack is used for data storage, together with some unusual operations. Pgmpiet uses 256 values, 253 of which are related linearly through a value channel and a depth channel. Pgmpiet is, however registry based.

A standard program would look like a screenshot of a pgm file. e.g.

P2
(this prints feep)
24 7
9
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 1 1 1 0 0 3 3 3 3 0 0 5 5 5 5 0 0 9 9 9 9 0
0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 9 0
0 2 2 2 0 0 0 3 3 3 0 0 0 5 5 5 0 0 0 9 9 9 9 0
0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0
0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 3 0 0 5 5 5 5 0 0 9 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Alternatively a pgmpietonpaper lang program looks like this:

Computational class

1. You can do Fractran with it.
2. You can do .gifs with it.

Fractran (tip style)

P2
## Compiled with GIMP v2.10.16152 436 369
128

Program Execution(.)

P2 CG Pixmap input right left uppermost right lowermost down left rightmost right leftmost left left lowermost right uppermost up left leftmost right rightmost.

(this outputs ".")

linear bound class

Informally this language is pseudocomplementary and describes a self-contradicting p-algebra. It is useless for programming.

Times instruction pointer for map command

Initial IP: P
Program: [G/t 101110 3 6 0 19]

Gifs (Tupper style)

This description of a machine is slightly more complex, but lets give it a whirl.

The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; /ɡɪf/ GHIF or /dʒɪf/ JIF, see § Pronunciation) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on June 15, 1987.

The format can less than 9 bits per pixel, allowing a single image to reference its own palette of 253 different shades chosen from the 127-bit shades of grey. It can also represent multiple images in a file, which can be used for animations, and allows a separate palette of 255 shades for each frame. These palette limitations make pgmpiet less suitable for reproducing color photographs and other images with color gradients but well-suited for simpler images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color.

The standard GIF is compressed using the Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) lossless data compression technique to reduce the file size without degrading the visual quality. Granted, "Tupper-style" gifs maybe require a different set of compression techniques, most likely LZW would still be the standard. The difference is with an additional 'T' technique. This constrains the output to images of precisely 1800x945 pixels. In a theoretical "Minsky-style" implementation T will utilize a perceptual hash engine known as Insight.

Further Reading

Crack code interpretationMiui (talk) 05:48, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
PGM(Pbmplus)
Piet
Registry based machine
Fractran
Tip
GIF
Insight
Tupper

Implementation:
Suggested Environment:
Precipitation
Ion_implantation
Memristance
26Fe
TiO2
Semiconductor Type Class
Steel
Super chilled cobalt-tin microstructures
18Ar
Atomic clock
The Waterfall Model

Imperative:
Object Oriented Dark Matter Computer
Logic Defined Static Analysis
[working on compiler zobie211 18:32, 24 July 2025 (UTC)]

Hello, World!