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Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024)

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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...

Aaaah this fills in the gaps! Thanks!

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!

Is there a demo or git of the page?

omcb is available but only in single player mode now: https://onemillioncheckboxes.com/

Ah I thought I was gonna see the sexy Gyllenhaal in checkboxes. Is there a public page of that?

the multiplayer version is offline now and you couldn't see it without converting the underlying bytes to the 1000x1000 canvas. I do have a timelapse of the full time it was running though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8zg6cKxHFs

Not to pile on, but I wasn't expecting your "what's this" link to be a magnet link to Discord. Could be worth specifying that, or at least using a pop-out/magnet icon beside it.

Classic! Reminds me of animating Bad Apple on the pixel canvas (although this was heavily rate-limited and required a team of dozens of people collaborating) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grp6m57IRdg

Reminds me of rasterbation!

Reminds me of those videos where people make computers and games within Minecraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDiapbD0Xfg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BP7DhHTU-I

Check Gyllenhaal!

It's JinglePing all over again

excellent choice in gif

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.

hi! This is mostly due to my opinions around scaling but I didn't realize it impacted zoom so much, I'm not primarily a web dev. I'll change this to conform soon.

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