1 million bits of data to 1000x1000 gif?

[davidpbrown]

I'd like to represent data in a graphic form and one example is a million bits of data represented as a square .gif of 1 million pixels.


I'm posting here rather than [Art & Imaging] as I'd like to dump 0s and 1s directly into gif|jpg|png or other format, rather than using an application. Even with an application I'm not sure of an efficient way to channel the data. Any ideas?

[GNU-Fan]

I use http://www.imagemagick.or for all my image related needs.

It would be interesting to try if stream can read from stdin, in which case you could just pipe the 1000^2 pixels and be done with it.

[davidpbrown]

Thanks for suggesting imagemagick org. That had me wondering about hacking hex directly and how much easier plain text formats would be.

The SVG XML format does that and GIMP can then read it, which suggests I can convert image svg to other formats.