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There is a program called Every Icon (http://www.numeral.com/eicon.html). Over time it displays every possible combination of black and white pixels on a 32x32 grid.
I don’t know if this is what the creators of Every Icon had intended, but let’s imagine this project on a larger scale. Instead of 32x32 let’s use 200x150 and instead of black and white we will use a 64 color palette. We will also modify the program to simply save each image into a folder after it has been generated.
If we had a big enough storage device and a very fast processor (beyond present capabilities) to complete this computation, we would have a very fascinating folder. Most of the pictures would look like static, but among all of that would be a photo of every thing imaginable. It would be everything that has existed, that will exist, and even that which will not exist. There would be pictures of every frame from every life. We could even find a picture of you on the moon wearing a kimono and standing next to Nikola Tesla who is waving while smoking a slice of pizza.
It would be a folder of infinity that we could browse.
via - some of the comments are pretty interesting too
by Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Room - Fireflies on the Water, 2000
Stephen Marc: Ghana, from The Black Trans-Atlantic Experience project, 1988 - gelatin silver print on paper (Smithsonian)
Taken in Les Gonaïves, Haiti by Jane Evelyn Atwood in 2005
Taken in Iraq’s Kurdistan region on the Turkish border by Julien Goldstein in 2007
