In my security class about 2 years back, my professor mentioned about using visual passwords and visual hashes to help in user authentication and stuff (the details of which I totally gave back to him). I thought it was really cool to be able to convert strings to formula which generates a picture or ‘abstract art’ I call it. Now I stumbled upon this site which allows us to create all sorts of Random Art, simply by typing in anything you want. Essentially, the program takes your string of words and create a mathematical formula to define all those pixels. Then it spews it out as a square picture, unique to your string.

Its possible contribution to the security world aside, I’m pretty amazed and impressed by some of the random art created by the program. Some of my favorites pieces by this digital Picasso:

Of course I couldn’t resist making some of my own masterpieces. Can’t believe I can’t even match a computer!!