Awe, I thought they really did it, like the fictional Pratchett Discworld computer named Hex comprised in part of ants.
This needs to be translated. This is the depiction of the "human" flag computer in the recent Tencent adaptation plus some kind of explanation of how it relates to modern computer hardware.
http://www.rocketstackrank.com/2015/12/a-murmuration-by-alas...