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Why not use the pixel values themselves to encode the data? Each pixel's RGB can encode three characters (one for each byte value). The resulting image would
by johnrob 11y ago
Why not use the pixel values themselves to encode the data? Each pixel's RGB can encode three characters (one for each byte value). The resulting image would be much smaller.
(Not sure how twitter might alter the image though, which would corrupt the data).
- Lukasa 11y agoTwitter re-compresses the image, sadly, so that doesn't work. As I said elsewhere, there are other options, like QR codes or high capacity colour barcodes, but those aren't funny.