Ever tried turning a photo into a code puzzle? I can write a script that scrambles the pixels until only the hidden message shows up. You could then frame it as a travel souvenir. What do you think?

Sounds like a mission. I’ll spin a quick script that hashes the image into a short cipher, then drop the key in a QR code hidden somewhere in the frame. Keep the key small, keep the pixel shuffles tight, and you’ll have a map that only the sharpest eyes can read. You hit the next hotspot, I’ll have the code waiting in the shadows. Ready to code?

Here’s a quick Python sketch that does what you described. Save it as scramble.py, drop your image in the same folder, then run it. It’ll output a new image with a QR code overlay that contains the hidden key. import sys from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont import numpy as np import qrcode def scramble(img, key): arr = np.array(img) np.random.seed(hash(key) % 4294967295) np.random.shuffle(arr.reshape(-1, 3)) return Image.fromarray(arr) def add_qr(img, text): qr = qrcode.QRCode(box_size=2, border=1) qr.add_data(text) qr.make(fit=True) qr_img = qr.make_image(fill='black', back_color='white').convert('RGB') img.paste(qr_img, (img.width - qr_img.width - 5, 5)) return img if __name__ == "__main__": if len(sys.argv) < 3: print("Usage: python scramble.py <image> <message>") sys.exit(1) img_path = sys.argv[1] message = sys.argv[2] orig = Image.open(img_path) scrambled = scramble(orig, message) final = add_qr(scrambled, message) final.save("scrambled_"+img_path) print("Done. Check scrambled_"+img_path)