This might look like a scene from the Blair Witch Project reproduced by an AI bot, with all the grain and wobbling going on:

But that’s how my not-too-old phone recorded it! I’m pretty sure it was marketed with the promise of awesome low-light recordings back then… At least it was sensitive enough to catch this little blinking fella:

Isn’t it cool how much of an effect a single pixel can have? Especially when you don’t have the bandwidth to update the whole screen all the time!

Two pixels already make for some compelling storytelling! This glow bro was later joined by another luminescent friend – it was moving. And just as with demos and emulators, seeing the real thing live is so much more exciting than a recording!

So… This was the latest episode of “Geeks in Nature”. Join me next week when I watch a cloud.