Tool for encoding and decoding Pictured as Perfect code, converting text into a grid of colored squares (black, white, pink) and recovering the text from an image.
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Answers to Questions (FAQ)
What is the 'Pictured as Perfect' code? (Definition)
The Pictured as Perfect code is a visual code appearing in the music video (BGA) of Frums' Pictured as Perfect, created for the G2R2018 Climax -GO BACK 2 YOUR ROOTS 2018- event. It represents text as columns of three coloured squares. Each square corresponds to a ternary digit represented by black, white, or magenta. The 27 possible values of a ternary triplet can represent the space and the 26 letters of the alphabet.
How to encode text in 'Pictured as Perfect'?
To encode text in the style of Frums, use the correspondence table:
| A | .png) | B | .png) | C | .png) | D | .png) | E | .png) | F | .png) | G | .png) |
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| H | .png) | I | .png) | J | .png) | K | .png) | L | .png) | M | .png) | N | .png) |
| O | .png) | P | .png) | Q | .png) | R | .png) | S | .png) | T | .png) | U | .png) |
| V | .png) | W | .png) | X | .png) | Y | .png) | Z | .png) | .png) | |||
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Example: PERFECT is encoded as
In most representations, the order of the characters in the text is reversed (the characters are written from right to left)
How to decode an image into text?
To decode an image, analyse the colours of each column of 3 vertical squares and look them up in the correspondence table.
Example: decodes to SMURF, i.e. FRUMS written backwards.
How to recognise an artwork using this code?
An artwork using this code can be identified by a succession of columns composed of three squares, using a palette of three colours: black, white, and magenta (pink).
Each column can potentially be identified by a three-digit ternary number.
Any reference to the BGA (music video) of Frums' 'Pictured as Perfect' or its derivatives is a clue.
What is the connection between 'Pictured as Perfect' and 'Pictured As Brick'?
'Pictured As Brick' is a brick in the game Find The Bricks that directly references this work: its appearance notably features a black background with white and magenta patterns inspired by the BGA. The connection between the two works is therefore primarily visual and referential: 'Pictured As Brick' incorporates graphic elements associated with 'Pictured as Perfect'.
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- Pictured as Perfect Decoder
- Pictured as Perfect Encoder
- What is the 'Pictured as Perfect' code? (Definition)
- How to encode text in 'Pictured as Perfect'?
- How to decode an image into text?
- How to recognise an artwork using this code?
- What is the connection between 'Pictured as Perfect' and 'Pictured As Brick'?
