A thought experiment about a program

Last night i couldn't sleep and i thought about programming...
I got an idea about a program which couldn't be done today, but maybe in many many years...

So here is my thought experiment:


Now my question:
Should we create such a program in future?
And if we do, which worth will any picture and film get?

First of all, the number of all possible 10MP pictures in 24bit is 9.106583767*10^(7.2247198*10^7), which won't fit on any harddisk ever.

Secondly, the effort of searching a picture from this database that shows exactly what you want to have is equivalent to the effort of faking the picture.

So that program would be useless.

... doch intressanter
ist die optimierungsfrage,
den pixelcode so zu gestalten,
daß alle möglichen bilder ausgelesen
werden können,...
und jedes doch vielleicht nur einmal,...
farben oder zahlen auf einer torusflächen,...

no more secrets

ciao sneaker

9.106583767*10^(7.2247198*10^7), that's a 9 with 27 million zeros. There are, at low guesses, only 4*10^79 hydrogen atoms in the observable universe. a 4 with 79 zeroes. You'd need 200.000.000% more matter if you even were able to write every bit on an atom. Putting it in perspective is fun . I do wonder where I made a mistake.

i think if you can search the "original" picture, you don't need to fake it...
and you don't need to think about the size of the database...
i think we can do it in our fantasy...

i think if we have such a program, you can't use a picture for anything but art

such technology exist, try google googles on android, take a photo of a book cover/car/logo and get prices/wikipedia entries/google searches.

@Richi007: Let's put it that way: If you interpret all bytes of your picture as one big number, then finding the number is a task with an equivalent effort to finding the bytes, which define the pixels, don't you agree? Finding the bytes/pixels is like faking it.

If you have such a database, you don't only have all pictures you want, but you also have all pictures you want with errors. You might find a picture that looks like the one you were searching for, but looks like a cheap photoshop fake. The real looking one is only one of incredibly many.

I don't get it. You only have all pictures with a 10mp resolution, not all possible pictures.
Ohh... and what about different color formats (RGB, CYMK) (Additive, Subtractive)?

Well, I once wrote a programm calculating an id for a picture and was kinda able to rebuild the same picture from that number. Both isn´t really a problem, the problem is just that it is quite useless, as it needs some extra power and an equal amount of memory as the "real" image. And finding a nude picture of your favourite film star or something, needs more luck than one robably has.

Well, no, not really.
All pictures are created via bruteforce and should be aligned like this in the databas (eg. 00...00 to FF..FF).

So you can now go ahead and tell the database for what you are looking, eg. how your filmstar looks. And then describe more of the picture, eg. the tentacel monster that rapes her and the spaceship in the background.

Then you let the database run and output all images (you can add a offset to the search index as images following next to each other would look pretty similiar).

I agree with Lukas. Even if you had all possible combinations (which you can reproduce anyway, why save them?) you can't just tell the PC to look for "the tentacel monster that rapes her and the spaceship in the background".

The best approach IMO is to search for images on the web, do some shape recognition and try to assemble the desired picture from those.

Another interesting thing you could do is to teach the PC a language, i.e. not only its syntax but its semantics. How cool would it be to tell the PC to search "for that dark colored actress which plays mostly in action flicks and in one movie she's standing in front of a red sports car" and it actually !understands! what you're talking about.

once you can talk to a computer like that everything is possible. even a make game button.

not necessarily. It may understand what an object is and associate attributes to it (like that the actress is dark colored and what an actress basically is) but since it doesn't have any visual input, can't smell, taste, hear, feel it doesn't really know what the object is like for us.

I'm only talking about a complex net of objects with associations to other objects which can simplify a search a lot.