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Creative coding competition

What if there was a show (er, youtube channel, tik tok account?) where a group of creative coders all tried to make a randomly chosen piece of media art from scratch within a time limit.

For example, everyone gets 3 hours to try to replicate this piece by Zach Lieberman: https://twitter.com/zachlieberman/status/1483617881246085123/photo/1

It would almost be like Top Chef or British Bakeoff.

I don’t know how something like that would work out. You’d probably have to constrain the competition to make it possible at all (limit it to certain artists, certain techniques, or programming languages). Maybe there could also be “lifelines” where you get to talk to the person who made the original piece and ask them yes/no questions. I don’t know.

At the end, the winning coder can give an overview of their code.

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