Earlier quoted context omitted.
Demonstrating prowess with CSS is the point, which they have succeeded.
and in general making art on unconventional media is a time honoured endeavour.
The point is that art does not need to “have a point”.
The Simpsons in CSS
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Re: The Simpsons in CSS
#52Animated even and the code looks hand-drawn. I Fun fact: I worked at a nuclear engineering consultancy in the 90's. That's the not the fun fact. The hostnames of the computers were all Simpsons' character names. rsh blinky ftp homer
I work at a place now that uses USS Starship names for projects.
Really brings home the old adage about the hardest parts of computer science being naming things when the decision comes down to a discussion of the philosophical implications of a TV episode from 1994.
Re: The Simpsons in CSS
#53Some of these do not seem to render correctly on Firefox. Seems to rely on Chrome-specific behavior.
Some of them are slightly problematic on Safari Mac, too https://imgur.com/a/5CCu9K8 shows quite a few spurious ovals showing up. Good work though :)
I get this on Chrome/Mac so maybe it's an OSX thing.
Re: The Simpsons in CSS
#54SVG would be a better fit. Hand written SVG is underrated. But maybe it would not be difficult enough to make them in SVG. Whenever you feel the CSS get a bit hacky, like backgrounds with round shapes, it can usually be solved in a few lines of SVG. SVG also has classes and CSS, yes you can have CSS in SVG for style reusability and abstraction. You can also create SVG on the fly using JavaScript.
I suspect you may be missing the point of this exercise
I like unconventional solutions and hacks as much as the next guy, but a good hack should be better than the conventional solution in at least some way (like simplicity or tweakability). If the hack is worse in every way - the CSS is both longer and harder to write than the equivalent SVG - it's not as interesting to me.
Re: The Simpsons in CSS
#55Re: The Simpsons in CSS
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the heads up, I've just removed those links for now. Wasn't expecting anyone to come across them!
Still, I remain interested to know how you did it :)
I just built the characters up using simple shapes that you can draw in CSS (e.g squares, circles) and layer them on top of each other.
I guess an illustrator would do a similar thing.
Re: The Simpsons in CSS
#57I love how even something as silly and unimportant as this has 13 open issue reports on GitHub.
If you check the pull requests tab there's also a showcase of why some people resist putting stuff on GitHub. Most of the pull requests are low-effort tickets like "update bart.css" with no further explanation and a bunch of random changes in the diff.
Those almost certainly come from people using GitHub's web editor - the default commit message is 'Update {filename}'. I despise it, I don't know why they encourage such useless commit messages, there should be no default message because there can be no useful default.
Re: The Simpsons in CSS
#58Animated even and the code looks hand-drawn. I Fun fact: I worked at a nuclear engineering consultancy in the 90's. That's the not the fun fact. The hostnames of the computers were all Simpsons' character names. rsh blinky ftp homer
I went to a university where the authentication servers were named after nuclear accidents.
tokaimura.doc.ic.ac.uk
chalk-river.doc.ic.ac.uk
three-mile-island.doc.ic.ac.uk
Re: The Simpsons in CSS
#59Re: The Simpsons in CSS
#60Seriously, how are these things made? Is there a GIF2CSS converter or anything like that?
Trial and error with lots of time at hand