So how long would it take? ************************************************* Roy Hopkins :-) Tauranga New Zealand ************************************************* ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Chia" To: Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 8:55 PM Subject: Re: [OT] : Challenging...(another thought) > Well, the problem presents itself in that there are many, many combinations. > > Lets say we take 24bit colout, Red 8, blue 8, green 8 combination. thats 512 > possible colours per pixel. > > now lets say we have an avg resolution of 800 x 600. > > now that works out to > 512^480000 combination. no small no. > > I am a competitional programmer in school and computers normally hit about > 100,000,000 loops per second.. So generating all the permuations is kinda > hard. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Daniel Chia > > "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." > > - Thomas Edison > > E-mail: danielcjh@yahoo.com.sg > MSN: danstryder01@yahoo.com.sg > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 15:58 > Subject: [OT] : Challenging...(another thought) > > > > Wow! this must be good stuff i'm smoking! > > Imagine this.... > > there's a limited number of pixels in any monitor, yet it > > can display any image, so, if you wrote a program to set > > pixels at every possible colour intensity combination in > > sequence, eventually you'll get real images!! it could be > > anything, things that already happened and things that will > > happen!!and ofcourse a lot of made up things, like a photo > > of me and john lennon drinking coffe together, it'll be > > there. what's even more scary, what happens when this > > sequence eventually runs out? it means any possible and even > > impossible event that could or could not happend, has > > already been in the sequence... > > it means nothing else can happen, you'd think that was > > infinate, BUT the number of pixels is limited, and so are > > all possible combinations of this... > > wierd hey. > > > > -- > > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.710 / Virus Database: 466 - Release Date: 23/06/2004 -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads