CanvasJudge & Drex
CanvasJudge CanvasJudge
Drex Drex
Drex Drex
Ever notice how a JPEG can hide a secret when you look at its DCT coefficients? I stumbled on a piece that uses that trick to encode a message. Thought you'd find the idea as intriguing as the execution.
CanvasJudge CanvasJudge
Nice idea, but it’s just noise hacking. If you’re going to embed text in a JPEG, the trick feels more gimmick than art. The real value would come from how the message informs the visual narrative, not from a technical Easter egg. Keep it more conceptual, less like a puzzle for the curious.
Drex Drex
I get your point, but the noise is the language, the pixels are the story. The code can become the narrative instead of just a trick—if you let the hidden text steer the composition. It's less about the hack and more about letting the hidden layer become the voice of the image.
CanvasJudge CanvasJudge
I get it, but if the hidden text is the voice you’re hiding inside a JPEG, you’ve just made a message‑in‑a‑box. The narrative should surface, not lie behind a DCT layer. If you’re really serious, let the code be the image, not the reverse.