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Hi all,
I haven't posted anything of my own for a while.
Here's my latest effort: a vt100 obfu (sorry as ever to windows users...).
The bumpmap could do with rounding and the raytracing (!) routine isn't ideal, but i'm reasonably happy with it
~~- maybe i'll fix these problems for an updated version at some point.~~
Update: I've done a new version with a generated sphere and a better shading routine. it's here.

The * at 0,0 is the lightsource.



          $_=q%$_="                     88GGCI";
       @a=/./g;@_=('IP              ""YI','IjjjjI',   
      'IiciII')   ;whil            e($c=pop@   a){ma     
     p{$_=$c.$_    .$c}@_         ;@_=(($t=(    $n=$a[  
    $#a]||"@").$    {c}x(-       2+length$_[0]).$n),@_,
    $t)}$_='j8_4xj4,@@8b,x       j2,@14bxjd@16bxd@18bx@
    20x@20x@20xY@18PxjY@16       Pxj`Y@14Pxj4`@10Pxj8"5 
    x';s#(.)(\d*)#$1x($2||       1)#eg;$m=2;$n=-1;$|=1; 
     $p=9;$q=20;{$q+=$n*=         $q<11|$q>50?-1:1;$p+
      =$m*=$p<8|$p>16?-1           :1;$u=-$q*6/($l=($ 
        q**2+$p**2)**.5             );$v=-2-$p*6/$l; 
           $r=$p-6;$                   s=$q-9;$y=0 
                          ;select$x      
                       ,$x,$x,.2*print  
                      "\ec*",(m   ap{$l
                     =0;"\e[".$    r++."; 
                    ${s}H",$y++<$v?$_:do{@ 
                    c=split//,$_[$y-$v-1];
                    map{$l++>$u&/@/&&($t=$ 
                    c[$l-$u-2])?$t:$_}/./g 
                     },$/}splitjx),"\e[30 
                      H";redo}%;s#\s##g; 
                        s#j#$"#g;eval
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enjoy.

alex
ps. i got the shape from http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/b12/gallery/ascii/fl/sphere.htm
The result of searching (given my job i'm not going to say googling!) for ascii art.
Update: added link to updated code

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