binary pictures

Today's super find: Textify.it. It's a web app (also available for iPhones - not Android :( ) where you can make text/numbers/other forms pointillism versions of your pictures... It has a pretty good controls menu on the right, where you can choose how dense you want the picture, which characters you want to use, which font... anyway, without further due, here is an example of how it works.

I turned this:

into this:

Somehow, it reminded me of the matrix movie, in color version.

(via kottke)