{"id":15577,"date":"2014-09-03T05:22:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T05:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-first-bitlets-call-it-bit-a-was-born-on\/"},"modified":"2014-09-03T05:22:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T05:22:34","slug":"the-first-bitlets-call-it-bit-a-was-born-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-first-bitlets-call-it-bit-a-was-born-on\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The first bit\u2014let\u2019s call it Bit A\u200a\u2014\u200awas born on the sensor of a Cannon 5D Mark II camera. A ray of light glancing off a black plastic handle of baby stroller in New York City enters the glass lens of the camera and is focused onto a small sheet the size of a large postage stamp. This dull rainbow-colored surface is divided up into 21 million rectangular dimples. The light photons from the white highlight of stroller handle pass through a mosaic of red, green and blue filters in the camera, and collect in the micro-well of red pixel #6,724,573. Outside, when the photographer trips the shutter button, red pixel #6,724,573 counts the number of photons it has collected, compares it to its green and blue neighbors, and calculates the color it has captured.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/message\/what-bits-want-1cf0a8e4d488\">Kevin Kelly: What Bits Want \u2014 The Message \u2014 Medium<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So far, this is my favorite thing on Medium. It\u2019s one of my favorite things I\u2019ve read in a while.<\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/slavin.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">slavin<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first bit\u2014let\u2019s call it Bit A\u200a\u2014\u200awas born on the sensor of a Cannon 5D Mark II camera. A ray of light glancing off a black plastic handle of baby stroller in New York City enters the glass lens of the camera and is focused onto a small sheet the size of a large postage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-43f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}