IP Collage

a participative net art piece in which the numbers of each visitor's IP address are are added to an image. the four 8-bit numbers that make up the address are recontextualized into php's shape functions in the order they are required: x,y,w,h (x,y coordinate pair & width/height) as well as color: r,g,b,a (red, green, blue, alpha) to create a rectangle of a specific color (&transparency) at a specific location. viewing the piece changes it permanently.