The Camera That Doesn’t Take Photos — It Finds Them
Digital cameras generally do pretty much what you'd expect: capture an image and store it for later viewing. Strange Inventions built one that works very differently. His Image Locator Camera is based on the idea that every possible digital photograph already exists mathematically, so instead of saving a new image, it tells you where to find that image in a theoretical library containing every possible picture.
This works because a digital image is ultimately just a collection of pixels, and there are only a finite number of ways those pixels can be arranged. Strange Inventions demonstrates the concept using an extremely low-resolution 3×3 monochrome image. With nine pixels that can each be either black or white, there are only 512 possible combinations.
The encoding of a 3x3 monochrome image (📷: Strange Inventions)
That's few enough to put them all into a book, so Strange Inventions generated every possible 3×3 monochrome...
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