karlwilcox

I recall implementing this algorithm in C for a new fangled Canon laser printer as my individual project for my CS degree in 1983!

E.M. Forster's short story "The Machine Stops":

“Beware of first-hand ideas!” exclaimed one of the most advanced of them. “First-hand ideas do not really exist. They are but the physical impressions produced by love and fear, and on this gross foundation who could erect a philosophy? Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element — direct observation. Do not learn anything about this subject of mine — the French Revolution. Learn instead what I think that En charmon thought Urizen thought Gutch thought Ho-Yung thought Chi-Bo-Sing thought Lafcadio Hearn thought Carlyle thought Mirabeau said about the French Revolution....."

Or see a more complete implementation of English blazonry here https://drawshield.net (disclaimer I am the creator of this site, and to follow up a point below, yes, I did approach Blazonry as a programming language)

Try “Lake”, I found it really absorbing and the greatest peril is driving a mail truck that can’t hit anything.

Mine too. I now live just a couple of miles from the field in question and pre-lockdown had biked past it hundreds of times. Once I can go out again I’ll look at in a while new light. In more recent history the nearest village, Faldingworth used to be one of the UK’s atomic bomb stores...