7 segment display

11/11/2018

The gif recreated using this program:



The code for this version can be found here.

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#include <stdio.h>

/*
     A
     _
   F| |B
   G -
   E| |C
     -
     D

   A 7 segment display (unsurprisingly) has 7 individual segments that can conveniently make 0-9 and A-F
   perfect for hexadecimal.
   The state of a single 7 segment character can also conveniently be stored in 8 bits (a byte, in C a char),
   almost as if these aren't coincidences (they're not).
 */

enum segments
{
	/* refer to the diagram to know which value represents which segment */
	SEG_A 	= 1 << 0,
	SEG_B 	= 1 << 1,
	SEG_C	= 1 << 2,
	SEG_D	= 1 << 3,
	SEG_E	= 1 << 4,
	SEG_F	= 1 << 5,
	SEG_G	= 1 << 6,
};

enum characters
{
	CHAR_ZERO	= SEG_A | SEG_B | SEG_C | SEG_D | SEG_E | SEG_F,
	CHAR_ONE	= SEG_B | SEG_C,
	CHAR_TWO	= SEG_A | SEG_B | SEG_D | SEG_E | SEG_G,
	CHAR_THREE	= SEG_A | SEG_B | SEG_C | SEG_D | SEG_G,
	CHAR_FOUR	= SEG_B | SEG_C | SEG_F | SEG_G,
	CHAR_FIVE	= SEG_A | SEG_C | SEG_D | SEG_F | SEG_G,
	CHAR_SIX	= SEG_A | SEG_C | SEG_D | SEG_E | SEG_F | SEG_G,
	CHAR_SEVEN	= SEG_A | SEG_B | SEG_C,
	CHAR_EIGHT	= SEG_A | SEG_B | SEG_C | SEG_D | SEG_E | SEG_F | SEG_G,
	CHAR_NINE	= SEG_A | SEG_B | SEG_C | SEG_D | SEG_F | SEG_G,
	CHAR_A		= SEG_A | SEG_B | SEG_C | SEG_E | SEG_F | SEG_G,
	CHAR_B		= SEG_C | SEG_D | SEG_E | SEG_F | SEG_G,
	CHAR_C		= SEG_A | SEG_D | SEG_E | SEG_F,
	CHAR_D		= SEG_B | SEG_C | SEG_D | SEG_E | SEG_G,
	CHAR_E		= SEG_A | SEG_D | SEG_E | SEG_F | SEG_G,
	CHAR_F		= SEG_A | SEG_E | SEG_F | SEG_G,
};

void
printdisplay(char segs)
{
	/* line 1 */
	printf("\t %c\n", (segs & SEG_A) ? '_' : ' ');
	/* line 2 */
	printf("\t%c %c\n", (segs & SEG_F) ? '|' : ' ',
			    (segs & SEG_B) ? '|' : ' ');
	/* line 3 */
	printf("\t %c\n", (segs & SEG_G) ? '-' : ' ');
	/* line 4 */
	printf("\t%c %c\n", (segs & SEG_E) ? '|' : ' ',
			    (segs & SEG_C) ? '|' : ' ');
	/* line 5 */
	printf("\t %c\n", (segs & SEG_D) ? '-' : ' ');
}


int
main(void)
{
	printdisplay(CHAR_FIVE);
}

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