Wednesday, April 25, 2012

[wccasuyg] Binary calligraphy

Create fancy calligraphy for representing binary digits.  Perhaps one large class of symbols representing 0, another class representing 1.

Don't worry about efficient or compact representation.  The purpose is art.  Possibly also useful for CAPTCHA.

One idea is to use already developed Chinese calligraphy, but letting the even or odd number of strokes represent zero or one.  Stroke order rules are kind of complicated, so this might be a good CAPTCHA.

Even more fancy is binary to be encoded in two adjacent symbols, somehow "interacting" in some way, where the type of interaction encodes the digit.  XOR is one of the simplest.  Examining any single character gives no clue of what the digit is.

The symbols could be entire scenes -- paintings.  Possibly becomes steganography.

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