Was thinking about this for a while. Space of meaningful things is way smaller then whole space.

Could say there is a set of all possible images too.

Say we speak about 4k images

Its 3840 × 2160 = 734400 pixels

+

24 bit true colour per pixel which is 16.7 million of colours.

Its stupidifying number 2 ^

17,625,600 ≈10 ^ 5,304,802

Friend actually made an installation called Panoptic Machine that scrolls trough all possible images but for 128x72 pixels x 1000 colours

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r2pFendHn5k

I tried to calculate how much time it would take for humans to scroll trough them if they spend 4 seconds on each image and was 2*10^9 average live spans :D

But. As with music, not all images are meaningful and even among meaningful images not all are distinct enough so could be grouped. How much unique meaningful images left then?