Who won the 18th IOCCC
Description: International Obfuscated C Code Contest
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The International Obfuscated C Code Contest

The 18th IOCCC Winners

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Here are the names and categories for the winners of the 18th IOCCC. The source code has not been released yet. The winners will be notified by EMail soon. They will be given a chance to review the write-up of their entry. Once this process is complete the source code will be made available on the winning entries web page. We anticipate that this will be in mid-December.

The winners are,

- Best of Show

  > Mauro Persano - Animated GIF of rotating torus knots
  > Country unknown

  > sample (2.5 Mb)

- Best Emulator

  > Stephen Sykes - Commodore PET emulator
  > Helsinki, Finland

- Best 2D puzzle

  > Gil Dogon - Block moving puzzle solver
  > Jerusalem, Israel

- Most circuitous walk

  > Daniel Vik - X Windows 3D maze renderer
  > La Jolla, CA USA

- Best Game

  > Oscar G. Toledo - Chess program
  > Mexico

- Most superfluous output

  > Francois Boutines - XML Voronoi diagrams generator
  > Toulouse, France

  > screenshot

- Most sonorous output

  > Jetro Lauha - Sound generation with SDL audio
  > Helsinki, Finland

- Best 3D puzzle

  > Anonymous - Block shuffling 3D puzzle
  > Debian

- Best use of the WWW

  > Anthony Howe - Text WWW browser
  > Cannes, France

- Most discourteous interpreter

  > Arne "Timwi" Heizmann - Brainfuck interpreter
  > Cambridge, United Kingdom

- Abuse of the rules

  > Peter Klausler - Anagram generator
  > Minneapolis, MN USA

- Most beauteous visuals

  > Vincent Weaver - OpenGL demo
  > Ithaca, NY USA

- Most ingenious puzzle solution

  > Aidan Thornton - Sudoku solver and generator
  > United Kingdom

- Best use of parenthesis

  > Michael Ash - Self-printing LISP interpreter
  > USA

- Most ambiguous language

  > V.Chia - Is it Java or C?
  > Singapore

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Permission for personal, education or non-profit use is granted provided this copyright and notice are included in its entirety and remains unaltered. All other uses must receive prior permission in writing from the contest judges.