During some photoshop explorations, I came across a structure which reminded me a digital storage unit. It's easy to imagine either the central 'square' as actual bit, or the four oval shapes in red. Each of the ovals could have an on/off information (red/green), or even store an entire byte of information in colour coding (black, white, red, yellow, blue, green, orange, purple).
I called the structure quadbit, and played with the idea of putting more of them in the same space.
A simple process of multiplying by four started.
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| 1024 of the same |
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| 16 K |
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| 64K |
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| 1M |
It doesn't take long to reach a million units, doubling two dimensions and halving another with each step. We still can do with more examples to embody the idea of exponential growth.
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