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Saturday 24 February 2007

Distellamap: visualize goto label

Very geeky project: Distillemap

Like any other game console, Atari 2600 cartridges contained executable code also commingled with data. This lists the code as columns of assembly language. Most of it is math or conditional statements (if x is true, go to y), so each time there's "go to" a curve is drawn from that point to its destination. When a byte of data (as opposed to code) is found in the cartridge, it is shown as an orange row: a solid block for a "1" or a dot for a "0". The row is eight elements long, representing a whole byte. This usually means that the images can be seen in their entirety when a series of bytes are shown as rows. The images were often stored upside-down as a programming method.

Friday 16 February 2007

Textorizer

An online tool that vectorizes a picture using user defined words: textorizer.

Tuesday 13 February 2007

Color Code: Full-color portrait of the English language

Color Code :

33,000 words, grouped by meaning. Each word is given the average color of web images found when searching for that term. You can see clusters of words related to plants, flesh, food, and water.