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.
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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/