Programmer hacks Tetris to draw video game characters

From Mashable:

Programmer Michael Birken’s new way of drawing video game characters is probably more complicated than it needs to be, but all the more incredible for it.

Birken designed an algorithm that can place single blocks of color in Tetris by strategically building and destroying lines at lightning speed. Precisely place enough blocks, and you’ve got a made-to-order line. Stack enough lines, and the result is a pixellated picture of anything you want. Birken trained the program to build images of classic 8-bit characters like Mario, Link and Samus.

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