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Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024)

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Re: Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024)

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Post by banana_giraffe »

retsibsi wrote: post #4

Sorry to go meta, but this is the first site I've visited that actively fights back when I try to zoom out (or in, but the text is already very big by default)! I'm wondering if it's deliberate (why??) or a side effect of something else.

The site uses "font-size: calc(1.5vw + 1.5vh);" or some variant, for most of the sizes, which has the effect to lock the size for everything to the size of the viewport, regardless of zoom.

Re: Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024)

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Post by peeters »

banana_giraffe wrote: post #5
retsibsi wrote: post #4

Sorry to go meta, but this is the first site I've visited that actively fights back when I try to zoom out (or in, but the text is already very big by default)! I'm wondering if it's deliberate (why??) or a side effect of something else.

The site uses "font-size: calc(1.5vw + 1.5vh);" or some variant, for most of the sizes, which has the effect to lock the size for everything to the size of the viewport, regardless of zoom.

Yeah that's a very bad idea.

Re: Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024)

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Post by lxe »

This is cool but was hard to read because I think it lacks some context... so "one of my friends" made a site where anyone could toggle a checkbox on a large canvas of checkboxes?

And you (author?) set up a script to automatically toggle a bunch of them at a at a time to anime a short video of Jake Gyllenhaal?

Was this done via rendering the site and toggling appropriate coordinates, or through an endpoint/API?

Re: Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024)

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Post by pieterr »

lxe wrote: post #7

This is cool but was hard to read because I think it lacks some context... so "one of my friends" made a site where anyone could toggle a checkbox on a large canvas of checkboxes? And you (author?) set up a script to automatically toggle a bunch of them at a at a time to anime a short video of Jake Gyllenhaal? Was this done via rendering the site and toggling appropriate coordinates, or through an endpoint/API?

More context:

https://eieio.games/blog/the-secret-inside-one-million-check...

Re: Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024)

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Post by ednaordinary »

lxe wrote: post #7

This is cool but was hard to read because I think it lacks some context... so "one of my friends" made a site where anyone could toggle a checkbox on a large canvas of checkboxes? And you (author?) set up a script to automatically toggle a bunch of them at a at a time to anime a short video of Jake Gyllenhaal? Was this done via rendering the site and toggling appropriate coordinates, or through an endpoint/API?

author here! I mostly assumed the reader had some context for this blog around omcb since it had gone viral and I posted it in circles already familiar, but looking back that wasn't a great decision. I'll likely revise this blog soon as there's a few other things I thought I didn't explain well. thanks for your feedback!
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