Hello, World! A visual code for Google Earth

Hello World! is a giant semacode, the artwork of Brian Kernighan, measuring 160 x 160 meters and mown into a wheat field near the town of Ilmenau in the Land Thuringia (Germany), designed for the virtual world of the software Google Earth:

The code consists of 18 x 18 bright and dark squares producing decoded the phrase “Hello, world!”.

[via networked performance]

emily | 4:39 PM | Barcode Technologies / RFID Tags / NFC |
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