Tuesday, 10 July 2007

Hello, world!

I was doing some research on crop circles and the like for a project out in Berwick where I am proposing rooftop agriculture (can't wait for the community feed back when it goes into town planning) and came across this interesting geeky project...

In the artist's words
"“Hello, world!” is a real installation for the virtual globe of the software Google Earth. A Semacode measuring 160 x 160 meters was mown into a wheat field near the town of Ilmenau in the Land Thuringia. The code consists of 18 x 18 bright and dark squares producing decoded the phrase “Hello, world!”.

More images here