Some of you may have seen xkcd #1110, "Click and Drag", from Wed 19 Sep. If not: http://xkcd.com/1110/
Some people have analyzed it. If it was a conventional image, it would be 165888 x 79872 pixels (W x H). As a 32-bit uncompressed bitmap, it would be almost 60 gigabytes. Printed at 300 DPI, it would be 46 feet wide. The xkcd page uses HTML "stitching" and a lot of blank fills to accomplish this in about 6 MB of images. http://boingboing.net/2012/09/19/xkcds-14-foot-wide-click-and.html http://blackhole12.blogspot.com/2012/09/analyzing-xkcd-click-and-drag.html Someone created a zoomable version (like Google Maps): http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/ Run the browser window full-screen, and it's impressive, despite being a black-and-white stick figure drawing. Someone else stitched it together using static HTML. I downloaded the fileset using wget, and then pointed browsers at it. Firefox (14.0.1, clean profile, clean start, no other pages) achieved a resident size of 900 MB on this 1 GB machine, and a virtual size of 3 GB, at which point memory was exhausted and the kernel killed the process. I never saw the page. Chrome renders the page, and handles it reasonable well, in 400 MB of virtual and 70 MB resident. So, if you ever wanted to see what a 46 foot wide web page looks like, now you can, but be careful, it may crash your browser, or even your PC: http://blackspherestudios.com/storage/xkcd_huge_static.html Again, be careful clicking that. The wget command I used was: wget -nd -N -r -p -c -k -K -H http://blackspherestudios.com/storage/xkcd_huge_static.html -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
