Favicon Project

November 2, 2018

For homework we were required to make a Favicon project, which is basically using an editor to code in hexadecimal to make a 16 x 16 image. The editor blew up the size so that I can work on the image, but it was much smaller when I saved it to my computer.

The image was saved as a .ico file. It actually wouldn't let me upload it as an .ico file, so I took a screenshot of it.

When making this image, the only obstacles I had was deciding what to make. Originally I wanted to make an animal or a person, but there were so few pixels that it was impossible. I wanted to make a cat sitting on a box before the sunset, for example, but the cat itself would take up the whole image. A more practical option was what I ended up with: a sail boat on a sunset horizon. Even then, the image is very simplistic, which is understandable due to the low resolution.

Coding each of the pixels was hard work. For parts of my image that were mostly the same color, I could copy and paste the values for the pixels in a repeated fashion. It took work to orient myself in the image, however it was easy once I got the hang of it.

If I could remake another image, I would use a tool that allows me to use more pixels for more detailed art.