Alright, I just went and helped out Lucifer on the DBP section with some starfield generation stuff.
I had an old starfield generator which had the following code:
do
A=rnd(1024)
B=rnd(768)
dot A,B
loop
Not very exciting, but I noticed it filled the screen gradually. And I thought, I know, I'll make it fill the screen back, with black pixels, so used this code:
do
A=rnd(1024)
B=rnd(768)
C=rnd(1)
if C=0
dot A,B,rgb(255,255,255)
else
dot A,B,rgb(0,0,0)
endif
loop
Now, I sat and watched this for a short while (I'd say 5 minutes at the most) and I was literally, quite shocked at what I was beginning to see.
I could clearly see letters from all ASCII alphabets.
The kind of thing you'd get if you went into Notepad, held Alt then pressed a few number keys on the numpad.
I've attatched a picture of what I saw after a short while highlighting some of the ASCII characters I could see.
(In the bottom right, it's not a letter, but it looks like
Horace from the Spectrum games to me.)
I do realise this is kind of like, spotting shapes in clouds, because the attatched image only shows a few things I spotted, but it becomes more obvious when it's constantly refreshing infront of you. (Other letters I've seen whilest doing it include: β æ χ
