xkcd webcomic

Gus · **Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2012 8:40 am

Today's comic on xkcd is awesome!

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You have got to go to the webpage to see it in all its glory. If you get stuck, go read the comments on the forum.

bmenrigh · **Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2012 11:13 am

I extracted all of the tiles for the whole graphic. There are some real gems in there. This must have been so much work to make.

KelvinS · **Joined:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:13 pm

bmenrigh wrote:

I extracted all of the tiles for the whole graphic. There are some real gems in there. This must have been so much work to make.

I don't get it, did I miss something?

GuiltyBystander · **Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2012 11:41 am

KelvinS wrote:

bmenrigh wrote:

I extracted all of the tiles for the whole graphic. There are some real gems in there. This must have been so much work to make.

I don't get it, did I miss something?

Yeah, click and drag the big image.
It's a terrible way to view it imo. I'll never get to see it all in it's current form and something that took that much time to be made should be seen. I hope someone makes a google maps like interface.

QuirkyCubes · **Joined:** Sun Mar 07, 2010 2:19 pm **Location:** PA

at the Minecraft creeper, and Mario corpses, and the yellow warbler.

bmenrigh · **Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:12 pm

Edit:

I didn't want to re-post any content hosted by XKCD, only link to it. Since others have already ignored the copyright issue, go here instead:
http://www.mrphlip.com/xkcd1110/

bmenrigh · **Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:13 pm

Edit: post removed due to people complaining of performance issues. If you browser was lagging it means you need more RAM.

bmenrigh · **Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:18 pm

Okay I can't post the rest for 2 reasons. First, there is a post character limit of 60000 and the other quadrants exceed this limit. Second, displaying all of those images will cause most people's machine to run out of memory.

MaeLSTRoM · **Joined:** Sat Jun 11, 2011 2:34 pm

Perhaps a link to a site with the whole thing would be more helpful? (And also it might make it so that people can actually load this forum page :roll:

)

http://www.mrphlip.com/xkcd1110/

bmenrigh · **Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:51 pm

MaeLSTRoM wrote:

Perhaps a link to a site with the whole thing would be more helpful? (And also it might make it so that people can actually load this forum page :roll:

)

http://www.mrphlip.com/xkcd1110/

Thanks. Post removed.

FWIW if your machine couldn't load the page you need more RAM. When images are decompressed they take up a huge amount of memory.

KelvinS · **Joined:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:13 pm

Wow, that is one BIIIIG cartoon - I've only just finished exploring it all, which very quickly became an obsession. I would have loved to live in the age of world exploration. Now it seems a shame that we know the world as well as we do. :cry:

Skarabajo · **Joined:** Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:58 pm

Here's a very smooth zoomable visualization of this xkcd webcomic (it works like Google Maps)

http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de

Skarabajo.

MaeLSTRoM · **Joined:** Sat Jun 11, 2011 2:34 pm

bmenrigh wrote:

MaeLSTRoM wrote:

Perhaps a link to a site with the whole thing would be more helpful? (And also it might make it so that people can actually load this forum page :roll:

)

http://www.mrphlip.com/xkcd1110/

Thanks. Post removed.

FWIW if your machine couldn't load the page you need more RAM. When images are decompressed they take up a huge amount of memory.

No no, it loads fine, It was just a bit of hyperbole

I did have quite a bit of fun exploring this comic this morning, although I didn't realise the tower was meant to be the Burj Kalifa until it zoomed out. Just a thought though, is that to scale?

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