Given that cloth can be woven into a combination of 1s and 0s, someone should weave Doom into a cape

Posted by Discordchaosgod@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 13 comments

first of all, all computer code can be expressed in binary, a series of 1s and 0s.

considering this, textiles could, theoretically, be woven into binary code. If you weave over the line, it's a 1. If you weave under the line, it's a 0. This would allow someone to weave Doom into a piece of clothing

a pretty or functional piece of clothing? Fuck if I know, but it would be interesting

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Qwert-4@reddit

The original doom was 2.39 MB, or 19 120 000 bits. Don't think there's enough space for this on any clothing.

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dodexahedron@reddit

Source code, compiled binary, or binary + assets?

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vibrantWhisper@reddit

If each bit was one square millimetre it would only take 19.12 square metres of fabric. There's actually a type of clothing that uses up to 40 square metres of fabric.

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Siophecles@reddit

1 bit/mm^(2) is actually pretty [low]. Some random shirts from my cupboard have about 3 threads per mm (9 bits/mm^(2)). which gives \~2.1m^(2) of fabric.

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No it did not 😭

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I think it's actually pretty doable, though the fabric would probably end up a bit funky with such an odd weave.

Assuming 100 warp (vertical) and 100 weft (horizontal) threads per inch (which isn't all that high), a single square inch of fabric would hold \~10,000 bits. Therefore only \~1,920 square inches are needed to code all of Doom on fabric, which in real units is only \~1.24m^(2). That's a pretty manageable amount of fabric, probably too little for a full sized cape, if anything.

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