The pixel party continues: a booklet printed on one screen

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Re: The pixel party continues: a booklet printed on one screen

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@ ricardobytes
Here is some code I wrote adapting your datastore program so that it can share data between devices.
This becomes an interesting thread. While you develope a method for exchange of data between different hardware (text only?), i will continue with the maximum compresssion case. I already had a message on screen, where the message itself was also "packed" in the dot at the end of the message :lol:

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Upon further thinking (and fantasizing), one pixel may also contain a long integer number (0 - 2^32 or -2^31 - 2^31) or two integers of 16 bits size. In the latter case, one pixel could contain an x,y pixeladress on a screen as large as 32K x 32k pixels (which will undoubtly come at some future moment). This in turn facilitates the idea of scattering a pixelized message all over the screen using a linked list mechanism.
Using "integer" pixels, one could write functions to add, multiply, etc. pixels. These function would not be simple as the automatic conversion to floating format in SB has to be ignored.
I will stop here, because i see a new "pixel based" programming language coming up.

Thinking about encryption: i already made an hard to crack encryption/decryption function (somewhere in this programming section). If such encrypted message (which remains within the ascii character range) is pixelized and scattered over a screen, already filled with random pixels in the same ascii range, there is a double decryption problem. The reciever needs to know the key and the starting screen adres of the pixelized message on the screen.

Time to write some basic functions now. ;)

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Some time ago there were perfocards and punched tapes. It also could be called a pixel-based encoding 8-)

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I have worked with both of them in the late sixties. With punched tape on the IBM 1620, and punched cards on the IBM 360 series thereafter. :mrgreen:

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