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PoSH Challenge part 8

And another update at the PoSH Challenge front, I'm arrived at Level 20,(had to cheat a bit at  level 17 to arive there but more about that later ) so some more posts will follow ;-)

I must say that the The Python Challenge. is really a great piece of work, complements to the composer(s) of this Challenge!!

For the average PowerShell user, the examples from this series might be a bit to advanced and cryptic, but it is fun to to this from PowerShell and see how "Relatively easy" it is to do the tasks needed for the Challenge.

Till now I have messed with a lot of stuff , you would not normally do in PowerShell messing with Bitmaps , http headers , Cookies , more zip and Wav files for example. making this a lot of fun to to and also the Levels are of very good quality, so very addictive and recommended to everyone.

If you are are preparing for  the The Winter Scripting Games but the examples in this series are a bit to much, take a look at my posts about the events from former editions :

Links to the answers of all events for 2006 you can find here : 2007 Winter Scripting Games Program , and the ones from 2007 in this taglist : Scripting games (behind PoSH challenge post in the list)

Talking about the scripting games : the scripting guy's where guests in the PowerScripting Podcast - Episode 17 - With “The Scripting Guys!” , and me doing the Python challenge was also discussed , in the context of adding an IronPython division to the Scripting games,  as the remark from Fuzzyman : http://ironpython-urls.blogspot.com/2008/01/python-challenge-from-powershell.html was picked up by Hal in the Podcast and relayed to the Scripting Guys.

Back to the Challenge this is my solution for event 9 :

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing")
#$bm = [System.Drawing.Bitmap]::FromFile( 'C:\_spons\good.jpg' )
$bm = New-Object System.Drawing.Bitmap(500 , 500)

foreach ($x in ($first + $second)) {[void]$foreach.movenext();$y=$foreach.current
  $bm.SetPixel($x-1 ,$y -1 ,'Red')
  $bm.SetPixel($x-1 ,$y ,'Red')
  $bm.SetPixel($x-1 , $y +1 ,'Red')
  $bm.SetPixel($x,$y -1 ,'Red')
  $bm.SetPixel($x,$y ,'Pink')
  $bm.SetPixel($x, $y +1 ,'Red')
  $bm.SetPixel($x+1 ,$y-1 ,'Red')
  $bm.SetPixel($x+1 ,$y ,'Red')
  $bm.SetPixel($x+1 , $y+1 ,'Red')
}

$bm.Save('good2.jpg')
ii good2.jpg

You can see I remarked out the line reading the JPG file, and replaced it with a line creating a new black bitmap, this is do make readers without the original bitmap the reproduce this in PowerShell, Just fill the $first and $second variable by pasting in the following code , and after that pasting in the PowerShell code above.

$first = 146,399,163,403,170,393,169,391,166,386,170,381,170,371,170,355,169,346,167,335,170,329,170,320,170,
310,171,301,173,290,178,289,182,287,188,286,190,286,192,291,194,296,195,305,194,307,191,312,190,316,
190,321,192,331,193,338,196,341,197,346,199,352,198,360,197,366,197,373,196,380,197,383,196,387,192,
389,191,392,190,396,189,400,194,401,201,402,208,403,213,402,216,401,219,397,219,393,216,390,215,385,
215,379,213,373,213,365,212,360,210,353,210,347,212,338,213,329,214,319,215,311,215,306,216,296,218,
290,221,283,225,282,233,284,238,287,243,290,250,291,255,294,261,293,265,291,271,291,273,289,278,287,
279,285,281,280,284,278,284,276,287,277,289,283,291,286,294,291,296,295,299,300,301,304,304,320,305,
327,306,332,307,341,306,349,303,354,301,364,301,371,297,375,292,384,291,386,302,393,324,391,333,387,
328,375,329,367,329,353,330,341,331,328,336,319,338,310,341,304,341,285,341,278,343,269,344,262,346,
259,346,251,349,259,349,264,349,273,349,280,349,288,349,295,349,298,354,293,356,286,354,279,352,268,
352,257,351,249,350,234,351,211,352,197,354,185,353,171,351,154,348,147,342,137,339,132,330,122,327,
120,314,116,304,117,293,118,284,118,281,122,275,128,265,129,257,131,244,133,239,134,228,136,221,137,
214,138,209,135,201,132,192,130,184,131,175,129,170,131,159,134,157,134,160,130,170,125,176,114,176,
102,173,103,172,108,171,111,163,115,156,116,149,117,142,116,136,115,129,115,124,115,120,115,115,117,
113,120,109,122,102,122,100,121,95,121,89,115,87,110,82,109,84,118,89,123,93,129,100,130,108,132,110,
133,110,136,107,138,105,140,95,138,86,141,79,149,77,155,81,162,90,165,97,167,99,171,109,171,107,161,
111,156,113,170,115,185,118,208,117,223,121,239,128,251,133,259,136,266,139,276,143,290,148,310,151,
332,155,348,156,353,153,366,149,379,147,394,146,399

$second = 156,141,165,135,169,131,176,130,187,134,191,140,191,146,186,150,179,155,175,157,168,157,163,157,159,
157,158,164,159,175,159,181,157,191,154,197,153,205,153,210,152,212,147,215,146,218,143,220,132,220,
125,217,119,209,116,196,115,185,114,172,114,167,112,161,109,165,107,170,99,171,97,167,89,164,81,162,
77,155,81,148,87,140,96,138,105,141,110,136,111,126,113,129,118,117,128,114,137,115,146,114,155,115,
158,121,157,128,156,134,157,136,156,136

I liked the result of this script, so I recommend that even if your not following the Challenge to try this script, it cool to see that kind of stuff done for a Shell.

b.t.w. anyone for the PoSH version I made of the other "Bitmap" level ? (PoSH Challenge part 6  the encoded piano ) plz leave a comment  :

Enjoy,

Greetings /\/\o\/\/