💾🌌 "hidden figures" from the metaverse

a quick-and-dirty steganography proof-of-concept using images from the Hubble Space Telescope.

you should be able to see a hidden image when you shift the focal point of your eyes ;) (with a little practice it becomes easy!)

💡 steganography is the practice of hiding information and it has been around for centuries. one of the most popular techniques is 'least significant bit (LSB) steganography, when the information hider embeds the secret information in the least significant bits of a media file.

can you see the linux penguin 🐧?

(check other metaverse steganography images here)

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running with your own images

you can create your own steganography images! first, install deps with:

pipenv install

add env vars:

cp .env.example .env
vim .env

then add background and foreground images to their respective dirs (background and foreground).

finally, run:

./src/main.py

enjoy!