September 29, 2007

What's in *your* histogram?

Heh--this is one of the cooler things I've seen in quite a while.  David Friedman of Ironic Sans has hidden a picture in an innocuous-looking gradient.  Can you find the image?  It's fun to poke at the pixels a little to see what you can discover.  To see the hidden image plus the steps for hiding it, check out the follow-up post.  [Via Marc Pawliger, Tobias Hoellrich, & Jeff Tranberry]

Elsewhere in the realm of genius through illegibility: check out this recruiting ad for Lunar BBDO, rendered in typographic dingbats.  (That that, Google math nerds. ;-))  For more on steganography (hidden writing) of all sorts, check out the Wikipedia entry.

Posted by John Nack at 11:35 AM on September 29, 2007

Comments

Erki Esken — 4:08 AM on September 30, 2007

That hidden image reminded me of Aphex Twin who hid pictures inside his songs that were visible on spectrographs.

See http://www.bastwood.com/aphex.php and http://web.archive.org/web/20021004044113/http://chaos.yerbox.org/face/

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