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The cheating mentioned in the last post is this: Although the image data really is part of the hexadecimal expansion of π, I’ve added a palette to the gif to reinterpret the bytes as convenient colors. If we just interpreted the same exact bytes in a reasonable way, say as grayscale values, it looks like this: Nothing there. The trick is that we can reassign the colors using a palette. And in fact…
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