Graphical Mind Fornication Format(GMMF)

What is GMMF?

GMMF is an image format based on the Brainfuck programming language.

What is Brainfuck?

Brainfuck, for those who have strangely never heard of it, is probably the most mainstream esoteric language there is. Short terminology reminder: An esoteric language is a language made for fun.

Why Brainfuck?

Brainfuck is used for many reasons, but the mains are:

It's simple to implement an interpreter for;
It manipulates numbers on an array which allows to generate PPM-like images by executing code to generate the numbers automatically. An array only has to be 3\*width\*height integers long, which seems a lot, until you realize that's exactly a PPM. Sure, it's inefficient for big pictures, but you'll see I am not exactly trying to render something the size of a Fairmont.
And finally, you can have a picture of excellent quality take up a few megabytes, but a picture of 16x16 take up 16GB because it's Brainfuck, which is a programming language, and in a programming language, often, you have more than one way of doing a thing. For example, you could decide to put up a ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> simply to go one to the right, but since technically it's legit Brainfuck code, you could put one, or two, or 699548496400386594 of them inside a file. It's pointless, it's gonna make the GMMF reader lag, it increases your file size, but you can.

The difference with standard Brainfuck

Brainfuck Feature	Is available in GMMF	Function
>	✔	Moves the pointer to the right
<	✔	Moves the pointer to the left
[	✔	Begin a loop there
]	✔	If the selected space is not set to zero, restart the loop
+	✔	Increments the value of the space the pointer is at
-	✔	Decrements the value of the space the pointer is at
.	❌	Output a value
,	❌	Input a value

We don't need the input or output methods as we already output to the screen and we don't need interactivity. It *IS* planned to add a scripting engine to GMMF to make a Macromedia Flash-style application framework that could even run easily on the web.

Objectives with GMMF

Short term:

Render a pixel-art Felix Argyle from Re:Zero
Render a small-sized version of an Orloge Simard album cover

Long term:

Use GMMF to make portable 2D games with textures built into the executable directly
Use GMMF to deploy web content to potentially a lot of users

PPMtoBF

PPMtoBF is the transpiler used to transform PPM to Brainfuck code.

Known issues:

Mathematically, it takes a f***ing long time to complete a 64x64 image. I'm writing this as the first Felix Argyle image slowly but surely transforms to BF. I can't even write the reader yet; I don't have anything to test it with. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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