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