Talk about infinite canvas!

[avram]

I haven’t explored every bit of the most recent xkcd, but I think I may have found its outer edges:

• Starting point
• Rightmost tile
• Leftmost tile
• Topmost tile
• Bottommost tile

Given those URLs, it ought to be possible to write scripts that’ll download all the tiles (some spots seem to be procedurally filled with white or black space instead of having tiles) and stitch ’em together into the full image. Maybe tomorrow.

Comments

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

I don't think your "topmost" is really the top -- I started from the starting tile and went straight up, and found a couple of things that I think are higher than that. But it's hard to be sure with no way of measuring.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Please let me know when you do. I tried downloading the web page complete, but it only gave me a handful of tiles. I just know there are things up int he sky and probably under the ground that would take forever plus luck to drag to.

[yendi]

Someone has managed it: http://edc.srvs.us/1110/

(Note: Firefox seems to choke a bit on it, but Chrome was fin with the image.)

[jl8e]

I predict that tomorrow we'll see news reports about the inexplicable lack of productivity at tech companies today.

[ebartley.livejournal.com]

Image with zoom levels