When I worked on an early SoC with a display on the dev-board, our test software didn't do anything with the display. Depending on the last state of the system, the display usually had a bunch of ugly LCD noise on it.
Eventually I got around to implementing a rudimentary framebuffer to send to the display. Wondering what to display, I figured I'd compute a Mandelbrot fractal!
People liked it, and I was happy to have made our dev systems a little less ugly.
I went to work on other things for a few months. When I came back, they had replaced my fractal with the company logo :\
(I suspect, but don't know the codec, that the jpeg used to store the company logo ended up using more space and cycles-per-pixel than my fractal)
Eventually I got around to implementing a rudimentary framebuffer to send to the display. Wondering what to display, I figured I'd compute a Mandelbrot fractal!
People liked it, and I was happy to have made our dev systems a little less ugly.
I went to work on other things for a few months. When I came back, they had replaced my fractal with the company logo :\
(I suspect, but don't know the codec, that the jpeg used to store the company logo ended up using more space and cycles-per-pixel than my fractal)