it was all a random evolutionI was just experimenting to see if Flibz's thing would accept return carriages without them coming up as a {br} line break thing as many other dynamic images do.
The image is created on the fly off his server and you can put your own text into it. There are quite a few of these. (sorry if i'm telling you stuff you already know) Kerry has made some including one with me on it.
Anyway to test out the line break i just randomly hit the keypad to get soem chars and then hit return, it turned out I had a mostly binary string of 1's and 0's so I copied and pasted them and then thought i'd make some kind of pattern.
Fnord was just the first thing that sprung to mind and seemed doable, a little tricky perhaps width wise, but then the naural instincts of 1 meaning something and 0 meaning nothing took over and I used 1's to mean a bit of the letter without thinking about the readability of it.
The finished thing ready and previewed I just needed a subject for it, so a bit of 'pop music' sufficed as I figured most people would be familiar with a reference to it.
I didn't really expect the binary to send off hidden message signals in ppl's minds, but could see why it did.
(The image is created on the fly off his server and you can put your own text into it. There are quite a few of these. (sorry if i'm telling you stuff you already know) Kerry has made some including one with me on it.
Anyway to test out the line break i just randomly hit the keypad to get soem chars and then hit return, it turned out I had a mostly binary string of 1's and 0's so I copied and pasted them and then thought i'd make some kind of pattern.
Fnord was just the first thing that sprung to mind and seemed doable, a little tricky perhaps width wise, but then the naural instincts of 1 meaning something and 0 meaning nothing took over and I used 1's to mean a bit of the letter without thinking about the readability of it.
The finished thing ready and previewed I just needed a subject for it, so a bit of 'pop music' sufficed as I figured most people would be familiar with a reference to it.
I didn't really expect the binary to send off hidden message signals in ppl's minds, but could see why it did.
Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Thu 23 Jan 2003, 4:21,
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