my $im = new GD::Image(450,20,1);

I agree, there is a suspiciously monotone appearance to the image… and indeed the GIMP bears this out. I offer the source to the perl script: (no source tags available, it seems)

#! /usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use GD;

my $im = new GD::Image(450,20);

my @colours;
my $i = 0;
foreach () {
(my $a, my $b, my $c) = split;
$colours[$i] = $im->colorAllocate($a,$b,$c);
$i++;
}

#my $count = 0;
## allocate some colors
#foreach my $x (1..25) {
# foreach my $y (0..19) {
# foreach my $z (1..18) {
# $colours[$count] = $im->colorAllocate(236 + $y,93 + $z,0 + $x);
# print 236+$y,”\t”,93+$z,”\t”,$x,”\n”;
# $count++;
# }
# }
#}
$im->interlaced(’true’);

my $count = 0;
foreach my $x (0..449) {
foreach my $y (0..19) {
$im->setPixel($x,$y,$colours[$count]);
$count++;
}
}

print $im->png(0);
__END__

To call, open bash and type:
gerald@ged:~$ ./rob.pl output.png

For those using less advanced OSes, running is left as an exercise for the reader. ;)

The commented section in the middle is the bit that creates the input.txt file.

Also the code I use to calculate one’s age in days is inefficient as it loops through each day counting the days from the birthday to the current day.

The script for the image loops through 20 for R, 25 for G and 18 for B (or what ever the numbers are to make 9000) making unique combinations. I will send you the output text file.

The image was kept as a bmp, I thought this would keep all the colours.

Hmmm, what to do. Am looking at image in photoshop and cannot really tell…

http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/ref.calendar.php

A standard unix timestamp will overflow sometime in 2037. I am 10,612 days old (+0.5 I think by now).