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How Many Possible Photographs?
# PIXELS # COLORS # COMBINATIONS
9 x 9 2 82
4 95,284
16 130,815,226,545,884,704
16 x 16 2 257
4 2,862,209
16 1,609,484,153,977,526,457,766,689
30 x 30 2 901
4 122,311,651
16 1,797,688,204,549,112,388,331,400,24,940,356
160 x 120 2 19,201
4 1,180,016,675,201
16 13,668,864,231,289,050,070,633,127,127,440,877,269,977,566,177,196,641
320 x 240 2 76,801
4 75,503,370,380,801
16 14,608,217,581,859,776,677,662,427,667,240,903,011,689,430,183,328,208,243,173,761
Crossed Writing
“Crossed” writing, or two pages written on the same side at 90º angles to each other. The above letter is from 1837
Via: Wikipedia
Further Computer Use on Law & Order
Using a computer in the background (season 6, episode 2, 10:47″)
Laptop in the car – apparently with wireless internet access (season 6, episode 2, 14:41″)
Tracking an internet user while he posts live to a BBS (season 6, episode 2, 24:27″)
Looking at a BBS on a victim’s computer (season 6, episode 2, 11:13″)
Looking at tax records (season 6, episode 2, 14:49″)
Average Color of the Universe
The average color of the universe, as discovered by Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry. A contest has unfortunately named this color “Cosmic Latte”, though I prefer 255, 248, 230 in RGB or #FFF8E6 in hexadecimal.
Via: NASA
Robot Server
Robotic server at Two Panda Deli in 1985; Pasadena, California. Weighed 180 pounds and cost $20,000 ($45,000 in 2012 dollars).
Via: Smithsonian blog
Patterned Breads
Photograph of sesame flatbreads in X’ian, China by Dana Fritz
A selection of Tajik non by Wikipedia user Zlerman
Icelandic laufabraud, with intricate patterns
Swaths of Dirt
Studies: Where My Power Comes From
Rokeby Generating Station (8000 SW 12th Street, Lincoln, Nebraska)
Terry Bundy Generating Station (7707 Bluff Road, Lincoln, Nebraska)
8th and J (Lincoln, Nebraska)
[ details here ]
Random Images into 123D Catch
Initial success in hacking 123D Catch to accept an entirely random series of images.
Further 123D Catch Hacking – Colored Grids
Further refinement: programmatically-generated colored grids for better tracking and easier placement of missed photographs.
