Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into One Million Checkboxes: A Blog Journey
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Summary
The article discusses the author's experience of encoding an image of Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes on the internet, starting from a friend showing them checkboxes and base64 images. The author eventually drew an animated Jake Gyllenhaal on a hidden canvas shared with a small group of teens.
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· 3 pulledOkay.. first real blog post, and something interesting DID happen. Let's see how this goes, I'll start from the beginning.
About 2 months ago (June 2024), one of my friends showed me an image of checkboxes. Then an image of some base64. I had absolutely no idea what they were talking about.
About a week later, it leads to me drawing animated Jake Gyllenhaal on a hidden canvas shared with a small group of teens, a
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