Randall Munroe releases a book…
And destroys another day of productivity in the IT sector.
Clickat your own risk. May suck up terabytes of memory. Well, not at first. It is safe for work (probably), not sure if it is safe for servers.
oh yeah, his bookseems interesting also, maybe.
Clever bastard. I hope he makes a bunch of money.
But not all the money in the world.
I didn’t know he lived in Somerville.
Too bad I didn’t know about the book launch earlier. I would have bought tickets.
Holy Cow, I started to explore it and then realized it not only scrolls in, but you have to explore it laterally too. How far does this go?
All the way to the turtles on the bottom.
Damn. Bye bye productivity.
Last time he did something like this, he apparently won a Hugo for it.
I don’t like the lack of correlation between levels. It’d be much more impressive if black pixels turned into mostly black images and white pixels turned into mostly white images. Instead, it simply fades from one image to another as you zoom in deeper. Not his most impressive work, but that’s a high standard.
Mu?
Black pixels do turn into mostly black images, and the same in reverse for white pixels. I actually haven’t even seen a single exception to this when checking for it.
Is the thing scripted or procedurally generated? If the latter I wonder if it’s possible different browsers might handle it differently somehow, such that there could be bugs affecting different viewers differently?
It’s cows, all the way down.
It doesn’t work on either my home or work PC. What is it?
Do you have a scroll wheel on your mouse?
If you scroll it magnifies and embedded within the pixels are whole new sets of images, which themselves contain images buried within.
It won’t show any image at all, not even when scrolling.
Do you see the initial image (Cueball stacking turtles)?
Doing some experimenting, the results are browser-dependent.
IE: fails to load image at all.
Firefox: does a weird fade that doesn’t match colors.
Chrome: works properly.
I don’t really get this one. There’s Cueball with the turtles, and when you zoom in far enough, it eventually turns into a star field with lots of planet earths, each with “Book Launch” written on them. And you zoom in again, and you get another star field with lots of Book Launch Earths, and so on and so on.
What’s the big deal? I spent five minutes with it, but it seems I got the whole deal after the first thirty seconds.
White pixels and black pixels give you different results, and the results change based on zoom-in level and what part of the original you’re zoomed in on (two white areas divided by a black line can have different results).
You must be on Firefox, like me. That’s what I get. Ho hum.
I guess I’m not in the Randall Cult of Personality. I yawned.