Sound Mural
Sound mural is a command line image-to-sound program. It requires
libsndfile and libnetpbm.

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The image was converted to WAV using Sound Mural.
Then the WAV was brought into audacity,
and viewed in spectrogram mode. That was screen captured and saved as
greyscale GIF. This was done with linear frequency scaling selected in
soundmural.h.
image -> audio -> image
And here is a screenshot of the spectrogram mode of audacity.
audacity spectrogram screenshot

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actual image used
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Sound Mural is still in early development, but if you want to try it,
here it is:
Sound Mural 0.0.9e Source
Have fun. -kurt
Kurt Rosenfeld's Audio Software