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Originally Posted by GntlmnBndt
Bah! Using 49 pixels for each character? Horribly inefficient!
You can do basic ASCII with a mere 7 bits, just use each pixel as a single bit. Add a stop bit for each character, and you get 8 bits, which will evenly fit on a line (320 or 480). Sure it might take an upgrade to your current reading glasses, and some people will whine about reading binary or memorizing ASCII (lazy oafs!), but come on! 320 divided by 8 bits gives you 40 characters per line, and 480 lines gives you 19200 characters per screen. Using the numbers given for letters per word (I'll even leave in the spaces, being the generous kind of guy I am) and you have more than 2700 words per screen. Many short stories wouldn't even fill a screen!
For those few people that speak some other language, I guess we could support UTF-8 Unicode, but then I take away the stop bits! I spoil you...
Of course, to really be efficient, you would simply assign each letter to a specific color, and let each pixel be a single character, but the whiners would never shut up then!
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I just got totally Pwned...
Of course, I was guessing the size at which text would be legible. The seven pixels, while moderatly large on my computer, would be pretty tiny on the ipod touch.
But if you want to know how much info I could represent like that, I get 1159641169920000 bytes/hour with it's 24-bit display, 60hertz, and 156000 pixels. That's about a petabyte.... too bad we can't interpret that, eh?