Binary Code

by kuba - uploaded on March 10, 2026, 3:17 pm

I was searching on Google for an image of Claude Shannon (the father of the Digital Age) and found this image (with green 0 and 1 on a black background).



https://www.interaliamag.org/blog/claude-shannon-a-bit-more-information/



Decided to Vibe code a Python script to generate something like this, but with text CODE to be 0 and the background to be 1.

After a few iterations, I had a code that could render SVG with any text



Here is the code:

https://github.com/jcubic/ascii-block



This is similar to this image: