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22.05.09, 18:41
What would happen if you tried to tweet the Mona Lisa? It's a question even Dan Brown has never dared to answer, but thanks to a very creative experiment from Mario Klingemann, now we know - it turns Da Vinci's best known work into something Picasso would have loved.
Given Twitter's 140 character limit, it might seem next to impossible to recreate something as complex as the Mona Lisa. After all, 140 characters roughly translates to a mere 140 bytes of data, never mind the complexity of stuffing actual image data into text characters.
But the complexity of the task didn't fazed Klingemann, whose experimental image encoding technique translates the image into Chinese characters and spits out a version of the Mona Lisa that's reminiscent of a Cubist painting.
The Da Vinci Code - Webmonkey (http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/The_Da_Vinci_Code%3A_What_Happens_When_You_Twitter _the_Mona_Lisa_)
Given Twitter's 140 character limit, it might seem next to impossible to recreate something as complex as the Mona Lisa. After all, 140 characters roughly translates to a mere 140 bytes of data, never mind the complexity of stuffing actual image data into text characters.
But the complexity of the task didn't fazed Klingemann, whose experimental image encoding technique translates the image into Chinese characters and spits out a version of the Mona Lisa that's reminiscent of a Cubist painting.
The Da Vinci Code - Webmonkey (http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/The_Da_Vinci_Code%3A_What_Happens_When_You_Twitter _the_Mona_Lisa_)