Programmer Ian Witham created a short Commodore 64 BASIC program that procedurally generates a very interesting 3D landscape. We examine how it works, and then focus our efforts on optimizing the program so it can fit in a single 80-column line of code. Subscribe to Ian's channel: null Ian's original program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILnhj8TNiDc About Commodore 64 BASIC Abbreviations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYhuPM0KH1o To support 8-Bit Show And Tell: Become a patron: https://patreon.com/8BitShowAndTell One-time donation: https://paypal.me/8BitShowAndTell 2nd channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAgWzEh5c8391eJnELDy9OA Index: 0:00 Running Ian's Original Program 2:58 Code Walkthrough Lines 5-20 7:55 Lines 30- 12:45 Subscribe to Ian's channel 13:29 Abbreviating our way to one-line? No. 17:30 My original one-line attempt walkthrough 24:25 RUNning the first one-attempt, more commentary 28:22 shrydar's random optimization! 32:49 Ian's POKE 199 optimization 36:45 An imperfect 62-character attempt 39:37 Ian's POS() optimization 42:57 A few more speed optimizations 45:25 Thanks!