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IBNIZ is a virtual machine designed for extremely compact low-level
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audiovisual programs. The leading design goal is usefulness as a
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platform for demoscene productions, glitch art and similar projects.
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Mainsteam software engineering aspects are considered totally
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irrelevant.
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IBNIZ stands for Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo. The name
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also refers to Gottfried Leibniz, the 17th-century polymath who,
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among all, invented binary arithmetic, built the first four-operation
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calculating machine, and believed that the world was designed with
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the principle that a minimal set of rules should yield a maximal
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diversity.
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