Pixel press

Underbyte

Scan · 1 of 8

Beacon

Walk the columns. The tower becomes a handful of runs. Across the rows, every course is three. These inks already sit on a 15-bit grid.

2 inks. Select one, then paint. Fold merges another ink into it.

The file

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Header 8 · payload 29 · 29 runs

How it packs

Depth
Pack
Scan

1 bit names the ink, 7 count the run (up to 128).

24-bit stores each ink in 3 bytes. The sheet size is not stored — the press already knows it.

What you lost

Nothing shifted. The file holds the sheet.

Inside the keep linePast it — not kept

Kept 100% · need 100% · keep line 0

A pixel is kept when no channel moves by more than 0. The plate shows the original ink wherever the file disagreed.

The bytes

Hover a byte. Runs light the pixels they own.