real pixel coding

Inigo Quilez's demo of real pixel coding, in which an image drawn in Photoshop is saved so that the pixels themselves become a running 256-byte intro. It shows an animation produced by placing pixels instead of writing conventional code.

HN people hold it up as live coding at its best and as a favorite demoscene trick, recalled whenever something clever is stored in an odd format.

“A 256b intro coded by placing pixels in photoshop and saving into an exe.”