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by quacked 1715 days ago
I've thought about this as well; it's one of those weird things where you realize that with enough pixel count and shading options, every image you can think of exists within the total set of generated images.
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"enough" hides a surprising amount of work. Mobilise the entire planet's computers for a decade, assuming a generous Moore's law increase as well, and you might count through seventeen 8-bit grayscale pixels in that decade.

Annihilate the Sun and you won't get enough energy to drive a simple counter through thirty 8-bit grayscale pixels.

https://security.stackexchange.com/a/6149/