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It's fun to type in sentences in the URL part, and watch the picture morph around. Even a single letter repeated over and over gives cool patterns.

I wonder if there are any sentences that are also meaningful pictures?



A friend of mine worked out that if you draw a picture, and leave "blank" space (which is rendered in text as underscores) then you can carefully replace the blanks with letters which appears as noise in the picture, but otherwise doesn't disturb what you drew.

edit: e.g. http://pix.pe?Cttttt5tt9vt____P_5___J__v9_ttttttt9v9tttttkkk...


a robot made of the word "ROBOT"

    G_____________ROBO_ROB_ROBO_______ROBOT______
    ROBOT______RBOT__________ROBO______ROBOT_____
    _ROBOT_______ROBO_BOT_OBOT_____________




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