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> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of reinaldo@IHUG.CO.NZ
>
> 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.
>

Unfortunately, capturing an event in space-time and rendering it as a 2D image
on even the best monitor is a lossy compression.  There are many pieces of
information that are lost.  What appears to be you drinking coffee with John
Lennon, would look exactly like:
- A picture of you drinking sewer water John Lennon
- A picture of you drinking coffee with a well costumed space alien dressed as
John Lennon
- A picture of John Lennon drinking coffee with a well costumed space alien
dressed as you
- A picture of a well costumed space alien dressed as you drinking brownish
alien liquid with a well costumed space alien dressed as John Lennon
- A picture of any of the above in the company of the invisible man
- A picture of a picture of any of the above

Then there's the loss of time and locational information too.

What you would get though is every possible image that could be displayed on the
monitor that you used.

If you want to put the recording industry out of business, you can create and
copyright every single bit pattern recordable on a CD.  Every time they release
a CD, you can sue them, because you already have a copyright on that bit
pattern.  If they release recordings on another media, you can digitize the
recording and put it on a CD, find the matching CD and sue them for transmitting
and reproducing your copyrighted material without your express written consent
(and the consent of Major League Baseball).

-Mike

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