Clifford Pickover “million-point” structures in PHP

Back in 2004, I wrote some PHP to render the “million-point” structures Clifford Pickover described in his book “Computers and the Imagination”. I’ve got a project coming up that may require PHP so I decided to give it another look.

Code is here: https://github.com/fadend/pickover-dots-php/blob/main/pickover_dots.php

You can play with it here: https://revfad.com/cgi-bin/pickover_dots.php.

A couple references I looked at in thinking about this:

• https://phptherightway.com/
• https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.declarations.php

(If you’ve got any favorite PHP guides, I’d love to hear about them.)

The code was formatted using https://github.com/PHP-CS-Fixer/PHP-CS-Fixer.