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#visual-art #pixel-art

Back on December 23, 2025, I noticed that the designs on my sweater-dress-hoodie-nightie-thing could easily be represented as tiled pixel art, and in one-bit color at that --- a type I have great fondness for (probably why I like the sweater so much). So, I did it. I was happy with it. I still have it set as my wallpaper, in fact. There's something oddly satisfying about having an exact digital representation of a real-world object.

Of course, the reason this works so well is that it already was pixel art, just the pixels were represented with stitches instead of LEDs. (The history of sewing is very relevant to the history of computing. See also: Software woven into wire: Core rope and the Apollo Guidance Computer, The Pentium as a Navajo weaving.) It makes me wonder how the pattern that my sweater was made from was originally stored. How close did I come to recreating the source?

Anyway, I had been meaning to put it up here, but it seemed kind of boring to just be like "hey here's a picture". So here it is, as a responsive webpage. It is incidentally also a hug-me simulator. If you're short. And imagine the boobs.

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