Today I finally finished a project I've been working on to create images
soley out of HTML tags. The result is at
<http://dsl.org/m/doc/lit/beat/wsb.html> and to view it you'll need a
browser such as Netscape that can display color and HTML tables. It is a
tribute to the late writer William S. Burroughs.

What I did to create it was take a scan of a b/w photo and pixellate it in
the GIMP. Then I used the pbm utilities to change the colormap to that of
the Netscape color cube, and finally used xcolorsel to obtain the hex values
of each color block. I plugged those into an HTML table with a couple of
&nbsp; in each <td> for padding, and a non-graphic file image was born...


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