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Challenge
Draw the Olympic Games logo...
...as character (e.g. ASCII) art!
Sample Output
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Your art doesn't have to look exactly like mine, but it has to represent the Olympic rings well enough that it's recognizable.
Rules
- The program must write the art to the console.
- Shortest code (in bytes, any language) wins.
- A solution that prints rings in their respective colors (or a close representation) will be awarded a minus-twenty-point bonus.
The winner will be chosen on February 23rd at the end of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Winners
- Gold: marinus - APL, 62 points
- Silver: Ayiko - Perl 6, 75 points
Bronze: evuez - Python, 107 points
Popular choice: Danko Durbić - Commodore 64 BASIC
I'm voting to close this as too broad because of the rule "Your art doesn't have to look exactly like mine, but it has to represent the Olympic rings well enough that it's recognizable." – Mego – 2016-05-23T20:56:27.000
720 bonus points. Um, why would I want +20 to my score? – Justin – 2014-01-21T07:21:02.683
@Quincunx I assume -20 was meant – John Dvorak – 2014-01-21T08:10:39.640
21Hum, this is a trademark… – moala – 2014-01-21T09:56:07.210
4@moala I think this falls under fair use policy. – Nzall – 2014-01-21T14:23:41.383
3@NateKerkhofs ok, if you think that the IOC is ok to comply with solely the US copyright law, no problem for me. – moala – 2014-01-21T15:06:06.257
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Be aware : http://registration.olympic.org/en/faq/detail/id/25 IOC are ùùùùù. Do not mess with them, they are really strict on the use of there logo
– Kiwy – 2014-01-21T15:36:50.9431AFAIK, countries willing to participate in the Olympic Games have to adjust their copyright law to the IOC ideas, not the other way round. – Hagen von Eitzen – 2014-01-21T15:42:26.983
1Add a rule to include the (tm) mark also. – ja72 – 2014-01-21T15:44:35.553
I've changed the wording of the bonus rule to reflect that the "twenty-point bonus" is indeed not 20 points added to your score. – Adam Maras – 2014-01-21T16:02:47.177
To the trademark issue, I believe that this falls under nominative use, but the final decision resides with the purview of the administration and the lawyers. – Adam Maras – 2014-01-21T16:04:10.357
11In color, it's evident that they are interlocking rings, not merely overlapping. Few of the entries so far have accounted for that. – Rob Kennedy – 2014-01-21T17:53:12.403
6Totally IANAL: ok to write the sofware which draws the O****ic Rgs, not ok to execute it. :-) – Carl Witthoft – 2014-01-21T18:53:39.497
1Surely as no money is being made, this is not illegal. – Jonathan. – 2014-01-22T00:06:04.503
Too bad it's ASCII. Would look great with Python+Turtle for example. ;_; – Apache – 2014-01-22T10:54:40.527
How big a bonus is there for making the rings overlap in the correct way? Maybe 50? The only one I spotted doing this right was http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/19218/14680.
– SamB – 2014-01-27T19:41:03.190er, s/is there/should there be/ – SamB – 2014-01-27T19:49:49.207
@SamB The challenge has already been up for a week, I'd rather keep the rules as they are in terms of bonuses. – Adam Maras – 2014-01-27T20:21:00.977