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If The Moon Was Only 1 Pixel

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Re: If The Moon Was Only 1 Pixel

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Post by ygra »

cal2 wrote: post #59
opminion wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

3. Correct, and not knowing anything about the author I would venture that the reason is that he uses imperial in his everyday life, and thus it has been a concession to the wider world to do this in metric, for which I am grateful :-) Citation for "lowercase m for meters": http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/sec06.html

I'm American, so I use imperial units in my everyday life. I'm also a (bio)chemist, so I do use metric units about as often as I do imperial units. While I might be slightly biased ("M" is molarity gosh dangit), I don't think I would confuse "M" for "meters (m)" simply because I use imperial units in my everyday life. I bring this up simply because I've seen a few comments over the past few days to the tone of "imper…

Perhaps they sort-of knew that both l (lower-case L) and L were acceptable for litres and thought case-insensitivity applies to all metric units.

Re: If The Moon Was Only 1 Pixel

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Post by ygra »

_dark_matter_ wrote: post #2

Are you kidding me? Sideways scroll with no way to use my scroll wheel? It's choppy and unreadable scrolling using the scrollbar, and using the right arrow is just too slow.

Middle-click on empty space, move the mouse slightly right (or further, depending on the desired speed).

Re: If The Moon Was Only 1 Pixel

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Post by ximpathy »

jgw wrote: post #134
romaniv wrote: post #106

Funny. It feels like an adventure game, it illustrates a point, and it's just a static page. I even checked, it works perfectly fine without JavaScript. Great example of what can be achieved with good design. I can't help to mentally contrast this with what people call "web apps" these days that use extremely complicated client-side code to communicate far less interesting things, and often do it badly anyway.

It did to me, too. It has some of the mood of my all-time favourite piece of Interactive Fiction - heck, of any fiction. Photopia ( http://adamcadre.ac/if/photopia.html ) It's my hope that one soul, somewhere, will discover this today. That would make me happy. :)

Just played through it -- mind blown.

Re: If The Moon Was Only 1 Pixel

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Post by nknighthb »

kenrikm wrote: post #18
_dark_matter_ wrote: post #2

Are you kidding me? Sideways scroll with no way to use my scroll wheel? It's choppy and unreadable scrolling using the scrollbar, and using the right arrow is just too slow.

I think it was designed for a Macbook's excellent trackpad. That said, I can see how it would be really difficult to scroll without one.

Using a trackpad would mean I'm hunched over my laptop trying to destroy my back and neck further than I already have. Designing websites specifically for anti-ergonomic use cases is unwise.

Re: If The Moon Was Only 1 Pixel

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Post by rafeed »

I made it about halfway past Saturn before I gave up scrolling. Nice work.

One comment: If you're using km for the distance units, you might as well stick with it (metric) for all the other examples like 75 mi/hr and 475 ft to be more consistent. Better yet, an option to switch the units between imperial and metric would be pretty cool.

Re: If The Moon Was Only 1 Pixel

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Post by TophWells »

nacs wrote: post #122
mrmaddog wrote: post #58

Somewhere between Jupiter and Saturn, I had to resort to $(".essay").each(function(i){console.log($(this).text())}); to read the fun little text snippets. I like how it got fairly philosophical—everything eventually turns to philosophy if you are stranded out in space. Thanks for putting this together; it was a nice take on the perspective of our universe.

And here's the output of that command for those interested: http://pastie.org/pastes/8863556/text

And by interested, you mean lazy.

Thanks!

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