# machine wash cold
#visual-art #pixel-art

Back on 2025-12-23, 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|1-bit.day]] (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 a perfect 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.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine#Importance_in_computing]] See also: [[Software woven into wire: Core rope and the Apollo Guidance Computer,|https://www.righto.com/2019/07/software-woven-into-wire-core-rope-and.html]] [[The Pentium as a Navajo weaving.|https://www.righto.com/2024/08/pentium-navajo-fairchild-shiprock.html]]) It makes me wonder how the pattern that my sweater was made from was originally stored. How close did I come to perfectly 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.|/img/sweater/sweater.html]]** It is incidentally also a hug-me simulator. If you're short. And imagine the boobs.