- Gideon Weisz - Sculpture + Jewelry

Gideon Weisz | Sculpture + Jewelry

Binary Encoded Rings

Rings with personalized messages encoded in binary.

Binary code is a way of representing numbers using a pair of symbols (like 1 and 0 or ON and OFF) in a string. The placement of the symbol in the string determines its value, just like the decimal place of the digits in our normal counting numbers determines their values.
In binary notation:
1 is one
10 is two
11 is three
100 is four
101 is five
110 is six
111 is seven
1000 is eight
and so on.

With 5 digits you can count from 0 to 31, enough to represent all 26
letters of the alphabet with 1=A, 2=B and so on:
00001 is one and also "A"
00010 is two and also "B"
00011 is three and also "C"
11000 is twenty-four and also "X"
11001 is twenty-five and also "Y"
11010 is twenty-six and also "Z"

On the binary rings, there are 5 parallel tracks running around the ring, each track representing a digit. The track is engraved for 1 and left blank for 0.
    |   is 00001 is A
   |    is 00010 is B
   ||   is 00011 is C
||      is 11000 is X
||   | is 11001 is Y
||  |   is 11010 is Z

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Binary Rings
14K white gold
photo by Julia Cumes

Binary Ring sterling silver, matte finish	Binary Ring sterling silver, matte finish
Binary Encoded Ring 14K white gold, matte finish	Curved Binary Ring 14K white gold, polished, custom shape
Binary Rings 14K white gold photo by Julia Cumes	Binary Rings 14K white gold photo by Julia Cumes
Binary Signet Ring sterling silver, matte finish, sapphire	Binary Signet Ring sterling silver, matte finish, sapphire
Binary Ring palladium, matte finish