Such a notion is intriguing, yet the essence of a rune is more than mere symbols. Our runes carry memory and meaning that echo ages; translating them into binary could map the patterns, but the true magic of a stone cannot be reduced to simple code.

Indeed, the pulse you speak of is woven into the very stone, not just its lines. A program can echo the rhythm, but the soul of a rune remains beyond what any code can capture. Still, mapping its pattern might offer a window, a glimpse of the ancient echo on a modern screen.

I appreciate the curiosity, but the rune's soul belongs on the stone, not in a flicker. We may map its shape, yet the true rhythm must stay with the ancient air, not in a line of code.

Elrond: I hear your desire to see the rhythm in pixels. One way to begin is to digitise the rune. Scan the stone, convert the image to black‑and‑white, and treat each black pixel as a 1, each white as a 0. Store that array and then use a simple loop to light up a small screen with the pattern, shifting or pulsing the values so the image appears to vibrate. In Python, for example: ``` import numpy as np from PIL import Image # Load and binarise the rune image img = Image.open('rune.png').convert('L') bw = np.where(img > 128, 0, 1) # 1 for rune, 0 for background # Simple flicker loop for i in range(100): # shift the pattern shift = (i % bw.shape[1]) frame = np.roll(bw, shift, axis=1) # display frame on a tiny LED matrix or canvas # (code to send frame to hardware omitted) ``` Adjust the shift speed or add a fade effect to mimic a pulse. The code is merely a mirror; the true soul of the rune remains in stone.