This crazy bugger is trying to tweet the Mona Lisa. He writes:
Preliminary result of a little competition with the goal to write an image encoder/decoder that allows to send an image in a tweet. The image on the left is what I currently manage to send in 140 characters via twitter.
He’s doing it in Chinese characters because UTF-8 encoding allows him to send 210 bytes of data in the Twitter 140 characters.
MonaTweeta II [Thanks, @mashable!]
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Dumb.
Awesome.
____o88%88.
___8′-____-:88b
__8’________888
_d8.-=._,==-.:88b
_>8_`~`_:`~’_d88
_88_____,___888
__88b._`-~__’:888
___8b_~==~_.:88
___888o–:’:::88
_`888|_:::’_888b
_888^^’____888b
d88_______,%888b
Nice!
You should ditch the coordinates all together and put 70 cellular automata centers in a raster on the image, each having a color, a range (iterations) and a rule.
Thats 3 bytes each, giving 210 bytes for 70.
You would have star-like patterns growing over the surface and interfering with each other, giving a cooler picture ^^
@Been done: 195 > 140
@muhtehkuh: 210 > 140
Tweets are 140 chars or less, meaning 140 bytes, unless you figure out a way to encode more than one byte per character.
Or some shell tools in Linux. :)
It’s not hard. Rescaled to tiny in Gimp.
base64 < monaTweet.jpg > hi
wc -m hi
4284
4284/160 = ~27 tweets
:-P
Now. It is possible to stuff this into tiny URL.com and tweet that but it’s cheating. :)