The Mona Lisa expressed as a binary number

For my latest video (coming soon) I wanted a quick shot showing what the Mona Lisa looks like converted into pure 0s and 1s.

Of course I had no idea how to do this, so I asked my boffin mate Dr James Clewett (star of numerous videos).

He produced three versions for me - ones and zeros in bits; RGB bytes displayed a hexidecimal numbers in bytes; and finally the hexidecimal numbers again as bytes for the gray-scale image.

I don't have more detail about this as yet (but am secretly hoping he'll write guest blog to explain it).

The 0s and 1s version starts like this...

110001101101011011001010111110

And continues for about 5-6 million digits.

If you really want to see them all, click here: DROPBOX FILE (corrected - sorry an earlier version was wrong!)