Elysian Shadows

Okay so I was reading LazyFoo's article on pixels and he presented the following:

Just as some food for thought, because all RGB pixels are a combination of 3 numbers, isn't it possible to count through all of them to show every possible color? And if images are combinations of pixels, isn't it possible to count through every possible combination of pixels and show you every image that could possibly exist?

Trippy, aint it? =)

I, being someone who is generally intrigued by abstract math problems and huge ass numbers thought about this. What if it was possible to store every single possible image that could be displayed on a monitor with 32-bit color and a 1024x768 resolution? Pretty much you'd have whatever image you could dream of already in an image file. But how many separate images would this actually be?

256 ^ 3 (each pixel has 3 values ranging from 0 - 255)
1024 * 768 (number of pixels on a screen with this resolution)
=
16,777,216 ^ 786,432 (number of possible different images that could be displayed)

Apparently a few other people have thought about this, because google did come up with a few results when I searched for it. I tried it in Windows' Calculator (quite obviously realizing it couldn't possible solve it) and got "Invalid Input For Function". What if this were possible though? Less colors and a much lower resolution? You have to admit having a database of every possible screenshot would be awesome to browse through haha.

How much does this injure YOUR brain?

P.S. feel free to correct my awesome math skills

Now to just calculate the size of a jpeg at 90% quality to see how big a hd you'd need to store them.

a jpg? screenshots shouldn't be saved as a jpg...ever, unless it's a fancy 3D game where the jpgs artifacts actually adds a slight anti alias to help improve the image quality, but that's not usually the case.

dandymcgee wrote: You have to admit having a database of every possible screenshot would be awesome to browse through haha.

So, given that, you could potentially be sued for having illegal copies of every single copyrighted image ever!
Mind-boggling, isn't it?
Where do I come up with stuff like this?

Now try it with CMYK. RGB is mainly for web display but if your going for print I would try for CMYK. I wonder what fun math can be had with that one.

So, given that, you could potentially be sued for having illegal copies of every single copyrighted image ever!
Mind-boggling, isn't it?
Where do I come up with stuff like this?

Counterfeiting money made easy?

I can see it already...Those desperate fools: "I can use this to get every possible piece of Pr0N!"

dandymcgee wrote: You have to admit having a database of every possible screenshot would be awesome to browse through haha.

You would have to browse a lot to find something that not would look... abstract...

XianForce wrote:I can see it already...Those desperate fools: "I can use this to get every possible piece of Pr0N!"

That was my first thoght, but then I started thinking bigger, all top secret government information ever

eatcomics wrote:

XianForce wrote:I can see it already...Those desperate fools: "I can use this to get every possible piece of Pr0N!"

That was my first thoght, but then I started thinking bigger, all top secret government information ever

You wouldn't have any idea what text was true and what text was false, but you'd see every single possible combination :P

Be that as it may, there would be a lot of awesome death machines that could be found

you could start small, start off with an image the size of sprite, you would eventually come up with every 32x32(or whatever you do) sprite ever made, thenv just move on from there

could you imagine being able to generate a photo realistic picture of an event, that didn't even happen! You could get big bucks in terms of claiming you witnessed things (like seeing bigfoot)

The possibilities are endless!

Read this it's very relevant and interesting.

This topic is starting to get boring, "So you can do it, but earthly limits say you can't..." Ok we get it, logicaly it's possible, but very unlikely....

This is like the "Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite amount of keyboards and you'll eventually get the complete works of Shakespeare" thing. Works in theory but never in practice.