"Every Picture Ever" TV now a reality

Presenting, PANOPTITRON.

Well I know what I'm watching tonight.

Cool I'll have to take a look at this when I get home.

I'm scared

The second line filled up, awesome!

Edit: Now it's gone...

All the time, it was... We finally really did it.

You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

coooooooool

This is awesome.. but.. for the sake of conversation

theres a bit of an issue with the fact that this is monochrome 8 x 8... mainly because if I see gravel, a constellation, hardcore sex scene, kthulu's end of the word schematics, Jesus' end of the world schematics, the palm of my hand, a plank of wood, a closeup of a feather... in monochrome 32x32 maybe.... but probably I still wouldn't be able to tell the difference. should have gone 60 fps, 256x 256 and with 265 levels of grey ( or 8 ) ... that way we would never ever finish .. ever.. ever.. a many splendid thing.

That said.. we will probably get to read "ass" and "poo" in pixel font... and it will all be worth it.

In any case, it is greatly fantastically magnificent/dumb thing you have done here.. and I salute you

Stuff like this is why I love this community!

I saw how the world ends. Man, did Eliot have that wrong.

I'm waiting for this:

This needs to be pinned, way awesome duder

They say that if you watch the Vinco PANOPTITRON after midnight.. You get to see your soulmate.

I hope Charlie senpai notices me

At some point we're going to see a game of Pong... awesome!

Yeah. This is going on the frontpage.

Goddammit I blinked! Gonna have to start over.

Eventually it'll make a Mario.

Heh, I love that an 8x8 grid with only two colors will still take 19 billion years.

The Vinco brand is always innovating in the field of technology no one really needs.

Great job and nice font choice!

Wow

Man, I feel so small compared to this project's immensity.

I love how the bombcast has become a vehicle for stupid ideas to come into fruition in the best/stupidest way possible. Also, nice work duder, good job!

I love this dumbass site and it's community!

Popped in just in time to see it say "OL". Booyah!

Another quality Vinco product.

Also the PROBE TEAM mini game you made is pretty neat.

EDIT: Would be cool if they integrated this somehow into the main site so it's continuously ticking away in the background.

This is fantastic!

8x8 is maybe on the low side to get any recognizable images, but still, it's a great effort, and I'm sure we'll get to see a few random letters in the next couple of billion years.

This should be its own channel on Twitch.

@shouldice: You're now on the front page of this here website.

I think this will peak when a picture of Jesus forms, causing devout Christians to overrun the site, seeking religious guidance from Vinny

This is so good that it has been pinned twice on the front page!

Wow, thanks everyone! <3

ohhh i can't wait when the hd remaster version comes out!

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Well this is pretty hilarious. Soon I will know everything!

Nice, duder!

Waiting.

It said HI for a fraction of a second. Also...

Shouldn't that be Watiting?

Damn, I was working on something similar, but this blows what I was doing out of the water in terms of presentation quality.

Yo, this is really rad

Yo, this is really rad

freaking crazy man, I LOVE IT!

I advise listening to John Cage's Organ²/ASLSP: As SLow aS Possible while watching. Preferably the 639 year-long version currently being performed in Germany. They really suit each other.

Does anyone care to explain this idea more in depth? From what I get, since pixels are combing at an insane rate it will just randomly create images and eventually make every image imaginable. Is that right or is my feeble mind just not able to comprehend this idea!?

@sackmanjones said:

Yeah, it's just systematically going through every possible combination of 8*8 black and white pixels. One per 1/30th of a second.

Check this out - if 8x8 black & white pixels represents a 64-bit binary number...

That's 2^64 permutations of pixels...or 18 billion billion different combinations. If you were to store each one of these images as a binary, it would be something like...140 million terabytes of data. Unless I got my mental math completely wrong, I'm sure someone will correct me if I did!

I don't even want to attempt thinking about the math for how long these permutations would take to display at 30 frames per second, but its probably millions of years. If we did a 1920x1080 pixel display with RGB color, I think the sun would burn out AND we would have another Big Bang before we got through them all.

It's sort of like the Infinite Monkey Theorem.