[HN Gopher] Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th fl...
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       Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space
       station
        
       Author : sssilver
       Score  : 339 points
       Date   : 2022-11-15 17:38 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (floor796.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (floor796.com)
        
       | Scaevolus wrote:
       | One of my favorite collaborative tiled art pieces is this 3D
       | Marble Machine: https://youtu.be/Oszl95YWfbs
        
         | WaxProlix wrote:
         | Wow, this is super cool. How do you get obviously talented
         | people to spend so much time collaborating on things like this?
        
           | Scaevolus wrote:
           | Pwnisher has a bunch of subscribers, making a 5s clip isn't
           | outrageously time consuming, and it's a fun competition!
           | 
           | He's done a few of these community challenges:
           | 
           | https://youtu.be/iKBs9l8jS6Q https://youtu.be/JXrWPLNp9tw
           | https://youtu.be/EdCvwmebWN0 https://youtu.be/8b5k0M8wTBg
        
             | zppln wrote:
             | Wow. I don't think I've ever felt less imaginative.
        
           | pixelbath wrote:
           | Well, for these particular challenges, we're all on a Discord
           | server (https://discord.gg/createwithclint), and these are
           | semi-regular community challenges. There are also smaller
           | weekly competitions, but these are the big community collabs:
           | 
           | Parallel Dimensions (11/2020) -
           | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdCvwmebWN0
           | 
           | Alternate Realities (06/2021) -
           | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKBs9l8jS6Q
           | 
           | Infinite Journeys (03/2022) -
           | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXrWPLNp9tw
           | 
           | Moving Mediations (09/2022) -
           | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b5k0M8wTBg
        
       | tomcam wrote:
       | Ow
        
       | dark-star wrote:
       | this is awesome!
       | 
       | But where is the FireFly reference? There must be a FireFly
       | reference, right? RIGHT?? :-D
        
       | robocat wrote:
       | floor795.com and floor797.com are available for purchase, next
       | door so to speak.
        
       | smusamashah wrote:
       | Ever-expanding? Does it mean that new areas are still being added
       | to it every once in a while?
        
         | rob74 wrote:
         | It has a changelog in the top menu under "Changes" which lists
         | all the additions by date. You can even get notified on updates
         | (although only via Telegram, an RSS feed would be nicer).
        
         | sp332 wrote:
         | I see a Squid Game reference, so it's at least reltively
         | recent.
        
           | willcipriano wrote:
           | Click the changes tab up top, looks like stuff is added
           | regularly.
        
       | albedoa wrote:
       | Some prior art (music warning): https://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/
        
       | nullbyte wrote:
       | This is amazing, there's so much detail and little easter eggs
       | everywhere. I like the headless guy in the gym XD
        
       | mesozoic wrote:
       | This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a while!
        
       | daef wrote:
       | hugged to hard?
        
         | hinkley wrote:
         | I got about three screen's worth and it stopped. I'm not sure
         | if it's because I'm on a tablet or if the server is struggling.
        
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       | matt3210 wrote:
       | Should be marked NSFW
        
       | some_random wrote:
       | It seems we hugged another one to death
        
       | papa_bear wrote:
       | This is amazing. So many easter eggs to click through.
       | 
       | If you're a fan of this type of art,
       | https://www.reddit.com/r/wimmelbilder/ is full of good stuff.
        
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         | capableweb wrote:
         | > to click through
         | 
         | Uuh, thanks for that. Spent 30 minutes looking through
         | everything and didn't realize I could click on stuff until I
         | saw your comment...
        
           | em-bee wrote:
           | there are easter eggs too...
        
         | smusamashah wrote:
         | This is basically animated version of this subreddit. It has an
         | astounding collection of images like this. There are so many
         | stories in every single one (most) of them.
        
         | rob74 wrote:
         | Yeah, this instantly reminded me of the children's books which
         | are apparently called "Wimmelbuch" in English as well
         | (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimmelbilderbuch) - this is a
         | Wimmelanimation so to say...
        
       | FrameworkFred wrote:
       | I love this on so many levels...not an ever expanding amount of
       | levels, mind you, but an impressive number of levels.
        
       | jihadjihad wrote:
       | I don't know why, but this is giving me vibes similar to _The
       | Garden of Earthly Delights_ by Hieronymus Bosch.
        
         | MisterTea wrote:
         | The music video for Bucket Head's Spokes for the Wheel of
         | Torment animates the hell section of the triptych:
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3bO8rXc-nM
         | 
         | I really do enjoy Bosch's work. It gives you a sense of what
         | monsters looked like to people of the middle ages, many of
         | which are animal and fish like.
        
           | agentwiggles wrote:
           | That was really awesome, I've been a Buckethead fan since I
           | discovered his music through Guitar Hero way back in the day.
           | 
           | Enter The Chicken has to be one of the most underrated metal
           | albums of the 2000s, the collaborations with Serj Tankian
           | stand out but there's a lot of great tracks on there.
           | 
           | I'm a guitarist so I enjoy shred wankery more than the
           | average joe, but the actual songs with lyrics on Enter the
           | Chicken stand up to repeat listening much better than most of
           | his work imo. (ymmv)
        
         | 111111101101 wrote:
         | I love this version of that painting.
         | 
         | https://player.vimeo.com/video/191632804
        
       | nervousvarun wrote:
       | Don't let Roger Waters know about those kids going through the
       | meat grinder.
        
       | ArtWomb wrote:
       | Stellar performance via differential 2.5D rendering. This is a
       | dream ;)
        
         | rhn_mk1 wrote:
         | Funny, while listening to my laptop's fan going crazy I was
         | thinking that any computer from 2000 would have enough power to
         | render this if it was native :P
        
           | jacobsenscott wrote:
           | Sure - also on your computer from 2000 the fans would be on
           | all the time time, one fan would have a bad bearing, and the
           | HD would literally be making a crunching sound, and you would
           | constantly be cleaning gunk off the mouse ball.
        
           | joan_kode wrote:
           | I can absolutely make a native version that's considerably
           | _less_ efficient than this one.
           | 
           | And yes, a more efficient browser version is possible (and
           | possibly simpler). People like to fixate on platforms, but
           | it's all about implementation.
        
         | NikolaNovak wrote:
         | It "performs well" in the sense that I as a human enjoy it
         | smoothly, but it does make my modern laptop's fan spin up quite
         | loudly; and I don't know (I could be wrong!) that it renders
         | graphics that is effectively fundamentally more complex than
         | the ones I enjoyed on Amiga 500 and x286?
         | 
         | This is not in any way to reduce its awesomeness; I just lost
         | 15 minutes I don't have scrolling around and will return to it
         | this weekend! But I wouldn't say it had great performance.
         | 
         | edit: Unless you meant "Stellar Performance" in the artistic
         | sense, i.e. "The figure skater put up a great performance
         | today", in which case wholeheartedly agree :-)
        
       | nness wrote:
       | When I say to friends "the internet used to be fun," its projects
       | like these that I miss!
        
       | rob74 wrote:
       | Amazing! The only way I can imagine to improve this would be to
       | add music/sound effects that become louder or fainter depending
       | on your location: Boney M, Pink Floyd, the Muppets "Mahna Mahna"
       | song etc. etc.
        
       | gabythenerd wrote:
       | This is awesome. I saw Portal, Boku No Hero Academia, the Rugrats
       | and Harry Potter just to name a few. Seems it has easter eggs for
       | every generation.
        
       | Barrin92 wrote:
       | This is very cool. Feels a little bit like the modern day version
       | of a Hieronymus Bosch painting
        
         | defulmere wrote:
         | Came here to say the same thing, except Bruegel.
        
       | nielsbot wrote:
       | Reminds me of eBoy! https://hello.eboy.com/
        
       | hinkley wrote:
       | Poor Ruby Rhod. How you gonna play him like that?
       | 
       | Bzzzzzz!
        
       | UberFly wrote:
       | This is... truly awesome. Wow. Love that Pink Floyd section. You
       | can even read his lips as he's shouting at the kids.
        
       | throw7 wrote:
       | Very cool. I don't see Waldo in the Changes log, but does that
       | mean he's not there? ;)
        
       | TomWhitwell wrote:
       | I put a screen grab into Dall-E, it kept the colours and style,
       | lost the pixels and all meaning
       | https://labs.openai.com/s/dcbBJaRXuiM3lrOLGsQv6ANP
        
       | Kosirich wrote:
       | It reminds me of Theme Hospital
        
       | coreyp_1 wrote:
       | Find Chuck Norris... It's worth it.
        
         | rob74 wrote:
         | Thanks! Now my nose is bleeding...
        
         | cosmodisk wrote:
         | I never thought I'd ever see Chuck and the yellow kvass barrel
         | on wheels in the same picture. Crazy! Took me some time to find
         | Chuck.
        
         | calimoro78 wrote:
         | Found it! I challenge you to find the reference to the Fifth
         | Element...
        
         | readingnews wrote:
         | Ha! Certainly was worth it.
        
       | pimlottc wrote:
       | Note that parts of this are probably NSFW.
        
         | JoeDaDude wrote:
         | Lots of nekkid people.
        
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