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.