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Of course somebody thought of this already

Here's a fun one that's too long to print in this comment: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/chrisshroba/6c37c650668f4...

And the code used to generate it:

First some python to create a qr code from the link and output it as a json list of booleans:

    import qrcode, json
    code = qrcode.QRCode()
    code.add_data('https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ')
    code.make()
    json.dumps(code.modules)

Copy and paste the out into the browser console and assign it to a variable called `qr`. Then run the following code to generate and display the string in the viewer:

    (function(qr) {
        let start = '  L   L   L   L   K    L   L   L   L   K'
        let draw = val => {$('.names').value = val; main() };
        let decode = val => val.replaceAll('d','a   ').replaceAll('r',' a  ').replaceAll('u','  a ').replaceAll('l','   a');
        let size = 4
        let on = (s) => {
            let ret = ''
            let line = 'r'.repeat(s-1)+'l'.repeat(s-1)
            for (let i=0; i 'r'.repeat(s)
        let left_cell = (s) => 'l'.repeat(s)
        let down_cell = (s) => 'd'.repeat(s)

        // draw(decode(on(3)+next_cell(3)+on(3)+next_cell(3)+next_cell(3)+on(3)+next_cell(3)))
        let str = start
        for (line of qr) {
            for (val of line) {
                str += val ? (on(size) + right_cell(size)) : right_cell(size)
            }
            console.debug(`A ${left_cell(size).repeat(line.length)}, ${size}, ${line.length} line ${line}`)
            str += left_cell(size).repeat(line.length)
            str += down_cell(size)
        }
        console.log(str);
        draw(decode(str))
    })(qr)

A bit cleaner, since `.` is a direction change in place (although the input string doesn't look as nice):

.r..z...z..t..zh.t...m.zz.z.wzk..zzz...z..z.w..zg.gkg.g....r..g.g..dlbbe..be..be..be..be..be..be.d..b..d.d...d..cg..cg..cg...d..c..e.ebec..eb..e...e.b.e.b.e....bbbbb.b.c..e.c

This is beautiful work!

aaaa.bbbb.ccccc.dddd.eeee.ffff.gggg.hhhh.iiii.jjjj.kkkk.llll.mmmm.nnnnn.oooo.pppp.qqqq.rrrr.ssss.tttt.uuuu.vvvv.wwww.xxxx.yyyy.zzzz