{"id":465,"date":"2024-12-15T23:16:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T23:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/?p=465"},"modified":"2025-01-26T09:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T09:38:13","slug":"bitstream-talisman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"Bitstream Talisman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In &#8216;Phenomenal Sorcery&#8217; I describe the technique of rendering statements into binary, then creating a graphic bitmap which depicts that series of bits in a grid in which values of 1 are white and 0 are black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is an example of this put into practice. This is a bitmap of the word <em>Paragon<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Paragon-bitstream-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"619\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Paragon-bitstream-619x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Paragon-bitstream-619x1024.jpg 619w, https:\/\/spikevision.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Paragon-bitstream-181x300.jpg 181w, https:\/\/spikevision.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Paragon-bitstream-768x1271.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spikevision.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Paragon-bitstream-928x1536.jpg 928w, https:\/\/spikevision.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Paragon-bitstream-1237x2048.jpg 1237w, https:\/\/spikevision.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Paragon-bitstream-scaled.jpg 1547w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A bitstream talisman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I typed the word into an online ASCII to binary converter, then pasted the results into a spreadsheet, one digit per cell. I filled the 0 cells with black, then deleted all of the characters. I then printed out and cut out the strip. I wound it tightly and secured it, then placed it into a pill carrier that is attached to my keychain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8216;Phenomenal Sorcery&#8217; I describe the technique of rendering statements into binary, then creating a graphic bitmap which depicts that series of bits in a grid in which values of 1 are white and 0 are black. Here is an example of this put into practice. This is a bitmap of the word Paragon: I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/?p=465\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bitstream Talisman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}