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Depending on the definition of the word "image" in this context, I'd love to see people play the electronics component version of code golf to see what the fewest number of basic components would be required to put an "image" on a screen. No SOACs allowed.

Let's just cut out the middle and build the minimum required board to project an image onto a retina. Or a signal into optic nerve ))

Id try with a led illuminating the back of a pcb ? Still, nice project. The code golf fewest components to display a face is tempting ...

Laser, spinning mirror, and a mask to draw a mouth at the bottom and two eyelids at the top.

> Or a signal into optic nerve ))

That you can do with a single LED.

Nah, let’s cut that out too and go even further: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/blindness-cure-br...

You can get this to display "image" by just adding one wire between clock source and one/all of VGA analog inputs. It will be a random checkerboard, but still an image.

Isn't 'random checkerboard' an oxymoron?

Or do you mean the top left square is randomly black/white?

He meant to say that each pixel will be randomly black or white. What will really happen is that the color choice for each pixel will not be random, but can actually be predicted by the various clock frequencies he used.

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