Turn images into HTML
28 06 2007Digital images such as jpg, bmp or gif are made of pixels organized on a grid, in a simplified way each pixel rappresents a color and, like a mosaic, many pixels create the final image. With this simpe concept in mind Neil Fraser came out with the idea of a script to “decode” an image into pure html code and output a quite large table where each cell is 1px by 1px with the background color matching the source image colors.
The results? Interesting.
The use? Geeky entertainment, I guess!
You can try it for yourself at his website http://neil.fraser.name/software/img2html/
There is a Flash movie in here, you need to update you flash player.
Bitmap image,pixels detail.
I remember seeing a video on youtube about a guy writing the code on notepad and refreshing the browser window showing an anime character, that was pretty intense.