Previously I just played around with a faulty DVD burner to make some lame stripes: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/28673131

Used software

https://github.com/arduinocelentano/cdimage
It creates an audio track with carefully placed data to create visible images with pits and lands.
Quite crazy when you realize that this is a 5.38km long spiral

So... yeah... did I say I don't know to use GIMP? Well, how about some LibreOffice tomfoolery?

The presets needed a bit of fine-tuning since it isn't exactly the same Verbatim disc, but it was close enough already.

Other attempts

1st attempt with default values


Thankfully it was pretty close, and I only had to change 1st track length. Although it still doesn't look quite perfect. I am not sure what "Track delta" could be, and honestly not even the 1st track. Maybe the former refers to exact track pitch? Dunno.

Xenia

Art by Chimmie Firefly
https://xenia.chimmie.k.vu/

Fox by Fleurfurr

https://e926.net/posts/4557942

A regular photo

Looks good. The photo source is X (formerly known as Twitter), so that sucks source-wise.
But an alternative is here: https://railcolornews.com/2023/11/20/cz-finally-bolt-the-railway-dog-reveals-locomotive-name-after-himself/

As the URL hints, this is a photo from Czech Railways' introduction of Siemens Vectron locomotive named "Boltík" after Bolt's fursona.
Unfortunately, it's missing the name after being repainted, I don't know what's up with that, but that's also off-topic.

Sound sample

So, the images are cool, and they are quite crisp (if I don't use LibreOffice as image editor xD), but how does it sound?

You see, it's just an audio track.

Here you go: https://files.catbox.moe/kjhumj.flac

And for Lemmy WebUI users, an embed should work too:

Maybe. It's FLAC, I've used it with MP3 successfully, will depend on browser too.

Most apps try to display this audio as picture, but there is no picture. Well, I mean, technically a few meters of it.

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[–] 44 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    lightScribe but different and more volatile.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago

    This is rad AF.

    Keep doing what you’re doing.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I wonder how long it will take for someone to create a proper music track that is also a picture when burned to a cd.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Thank you for the FLAC. Combined with my Shure 440a headphones, I was delighted to hear a god awful noise in the highest of qualities.

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I tried burning a couple using this software when I came across your stripey post, but on the discs I had, none of the presets came close to your first attempt here. It was all just "noise". Looksgreat! Now I wanna try again.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Has anyone ever seen this tried with photoresist?

    I'm assuming "Blu-ray" is likely sales slang for 405nm near UV -ray. 405nm light works well with typical photoresist film. It would be a pain to cut a circuit board to the required dimensions and balance it, but holy crap the resolution is insane beyond anything one can easily achieve with a transparency based exposure.

    I have several sheets of ultra thin double sided copper clad and thin FR4 blanks I wanted to use to make 6+ layer boards for kicks and giggles but have never been motivated enough to master through hole platting; holding on to unrealized dreams of strike expanding a thin copper cylinder made of wire, cut to size, and a spot of solder paste on the connected layer, - in other words massively tedious work to unlock unlimited smallness like phone class circuit compactness... until I realized I can't solo-effort-create what takes hundreds of people IRL and designing tiny is a PITA.

    Still, economic access to tiny processes is a tools of the future level hack... I suppose it will be very challenging to access the focal range of the laser in this system. Cool thing to think about though.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    woah cool :0

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    That music track really takes me back. I haven't listened to Aphex Twin in so long!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    libreoffice is hilarious

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    This is honestly the most amazing thing I've seen all week. I'm trying this out tomorrow. So cool!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    this is the coolest thing i have ever Seen, probably. i will sooooo try it out later....

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