{"id":1050,"date":"2016-02-26T10:57:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T10:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2016-02-26T10:59:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T10:59:24","slug":"creating-the-binary-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ColtnessHS-ComputingScience\/2016\/02\/26\/creating-the-binary-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating the binary background"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve changed my background from a stock internet photo to one I created myself.<\/p>\n

First of all I wrote a little python program that generated a random 0 or 1<\/p>\n

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import<\/span> random<\/span>\r\nmessage=<\/span>\"\"<\/span>\r\nfor<\/span> item in<\/span> range<\/span>(3000<\/span>):\r\n    number=<\/span>random.<\/span>randint(0<\/span>,1<\/span>)\r\n    message=<\/span>message +<\/span> str<\/span>(number)\r\n\r\nprint<\/span>(message)\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\"blueBinary\"I then took a screenshot of the resulting console window and cropped it with IrfanView<\/a>. I made a negative of the image and swapped the RGB colours before\u00a0saving it as a PNG file.<\/p>\n
I then uploaded the file and set it as a time background, it needs a little crop\u00a0as it’s a couple of pixels too wide on one edge.<\/p>\n
I’m sure you can think of a way that you could use this technique to create even better backgrounds with patterns or hidden messages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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