The black pixels have the Earth. White pixels have new panels that change as you go deeper.
They’re collecting the various things you find zooming in here:
http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1416:_Pixels/Images
Not sure what you mean by that but it’s okay for me. I think?
Is there any way to navigate this besides the goddamn mousewheel? Every one I’ve owned doesn’t scroll properly, but regardless, it’s a jerk, annoying way to zoom. Before I gave up I would’ve found a Mandelbrot set a more interesting use of my time.
I wonder what the algorithm is that determines which pictures pixels turn into as you scroll in.
Err… never mind: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/37/1416_Pixels_layout.png
Randall was tonight’s guest on the Colbert Report
Apparently, he’s also touring. There’s a townhall meeting in Seattle, where he’ll be talking and promoting his book.
Looks like the man knows how to sell stuff, when he wants to.
Not on Firefox. You zoom in, and it eventually, after being blank forever, turns gray and then black with stars that turn out to be the “Earths.”
I sincerely hope it’s a bug, as I expect better out of Randal. It’s not like this sort of thing would be impossible to implement in a cross-browser way. Honestly, I think it’d be more work to design it only to work in Chrome.
For the record, I used Chrome and it eventually led to a white screen of oblivion.
I think the linux commands might be a clue as to how bad he is messing with everyone (though in the best of ways).
~ du -s video/
4170882256
~ du -hs video/
Alot.
~$
Here is a threadon reddit also with a link to imgur.
I’m on Firefox, and it worked just fine for me. Well, aside from the fact that my mousewheel is really flaky.
Well yeah, maybe, but the main point of what I said was that there’s limited value in zooming in on the black pixels. Most of the meat is white.
“Time” was an intriguing idea, but honestly I got bored half way though. It’s a shame the Hugo is influenced by innovation rather than content.
I don’t know, the fact that he communicated that it was set 20,000 years in the future or whatever it was just by showing a few frames of a starfield, and that his audience actually got it, is to me enough to justify a Hugo all by itself.
Nope. I zoomed in about 10 “levels”, and my browser stayed solid at about 4.6gb. It was sluggy as hell, but apparently not from memory use.
It says “turtles all the way down” and yet I was unable to find any turtles past the main comic.
Thanks for that. The Mu, Reductionism, and Holism images are references to Hofstadter’s Goedel, Escher, Bach book.