Xkcd: Click and Drag

nrkn | karma 622 | avg karma 6.41 · 2012-09-19 01:18:05

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4542347

Mithrandir | karma 4521 | avg karma 5.99 · 2012-09-19 01:49:43

The bit at the end[0] is hex for 'ProPuke is awesome'.

0: /* 50:72:6f:50:75:6b:65:20:69:73:20:61:77:65:73:6f:6d:65 */

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barrkel | karma 34063 | avg karma 3.87 · 2012-09-19 02:00:13

It's disappointing that it appears this won't make the front page. It appears the domain is on a blacklist.

Makes sense from a cheap humour perspective, but that's not what this one is about.

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saraid216 | karma 6617 | avg karma 1.54 · 2012-09-19 02:19:19

It's on the front page as of right now.

krisneuharth | karma 206 | avg karma 2.29 · 2012-09-19 02:02:27

Excellent! I feel like Randall is getting closer to producing an actual game with his worlds and characters. I look forward to what he has in store for us in the future.

Camillo | karma 3406 | avg karma 3.17 · 2012-09-19 09:20:00+00:00

Limbo?

scottyallen | karma 513 | avg karma 2.93 · 2012-09-19 10:42:27+00:00

I think he already has:) Look around you at all the people playing. Hint: the ones writing code are winning...

samet | karma 79 | avg karma 1.32 · 2012-09-19 02:10:22

Randall just got crazy (with a good meaning).

Digit-Al | karma 2138 | avg karma 2.95 · 2012-09-19 02:19:22

The mind boggles. How long must it have taken him to create this. It is HUGE. I have been scrolling round for about 20 minutes and still have not found an end to it.

nrkn | karma 622 | avg karma 6.41 · 2012-09-19 02:23:51

I'm running a program to map it right now

Digit-Al | karma 2138 | avg karma 2.95 · 2012-09-19 02:25:37

Yay. Finally found an edge. Seen so far: - absolutely massive cave system (not fully explored) containing a small village, amongst other things; - massive space rocket - satellite dish - what appear to be raptors running through the grass - well, they had to be there somewhere, didn't they :-)

mayanksinghal | karma 870 | avg karma 2.32 · 2012-09-19 02:41:58

from: http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/1110.js

  var size=[14,48,25,33];
  var tilesize=2048;
  var map_size=[(size[1]+size[3])*tilesize,(size[0]+size[2])*tilesize];

So 165888x79872!!!

zalew | karma 5036 | avg karma 2.83 · 2012-09-19 02:50:50

easier to find it here <div class="map" style="width: 165888px; height: 79872px; position: absolute; z-index: -1; left: -67645.4px; top: -27545.6px;">

yread | karma 18099 | avg karma 4.2 · 2012-09-19 08:35:22+00:00

On my display it's 350 metres long...

Mithrandir | karma 4521 | avg karma 5.99 · 2012-09-19 02:31:40

Here's a torrent of all the images: https://ubuntuone.com/4VxOo5cnInZWQUEplIdb2c

Sniffnoy | karma 4609 | avg karma 3.57 · 2012-09-19 02:50:47

Edit: I retract this comment. Having written my own script to fetch everything within the boundaries I suggested, I found that it didn't get any that weren't already in the torrent.

Going by the other comments, I suspect this is missing some. vladoh claims there's even more stuff under the tunnels. Meanwhile, mayanksinghal points out the size of the array holding everything -- it appears north goes up to 14, and south goes down to 25; however, the images in this torrent go only as high as north 11 and south 25. (Seems everyone agrees that the east and west boundaries are 48 and 33.)

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hkmurakami | karma 18245 | avg karma 3.63 · 2012-09-19 03:02:46

Randall still draws with pencil and paper, and draws "really big"; I really want to know how much paper area he used for this one :O

DanielRibeiro | karma 40139 | avg karma 9.74 · 2012-09-19 02:52:27

I was having trouble downloading the torrent, so I wrote a little script to get it for me:

https://gist.github.com/3748257

Warning: 6mb worth of files.

Edit: Github repo with all the images and the script, so that people don't need to hammer the xkcd server:

https://github.com/danielribeiro/xkcd_grab

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apag | karma 35 | avg karma 1.67 · 2012-09-19 08:10:07+00:00

Thanks for sharing! I was just going to do that myself, glad that now I don’t have to.

knowtheory | karma 7508 | avg karma 5.94 · 2012-09-19 08:10:23+00:00

And folks can hammer github's servers instead by viewing the commit https://github.com/danielribeiro/xkcd_grab/commit/40f58f4d1a...

apag | karma 35 | avg karma 1.67 · 2012-09-19 04:08:45

And here is how you get a web page you can open to view the whole thing in a one sitting:

  perl -e'print "<style>img{width:2048px;height:2048px}</style><pre>"; print /X$/ ? "\n" : "<img src=$_.png>" for @ARGV' {{13..1}n,{1..19}s}{{33..1}w,{1..48}e,X} > index.html

Warning: gigantic page, may crash your browser. (Not as bad as it might seem, since many tiles are missing.)

dmor | karma 8592 | avg karma 7.17 · 2012-09-19 07:32:41+00:00

Bwahaha, upper left corner (waaaay up). I'm working at a small startup. Our business model is "taking free drinks from industry events and reselling them".

Edit: Holy shit I had no idea how huge this was! I'd pay for a massive framed poster of this thing.

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zalew | karma 5036 | avg karma 2.83 · 2012-09-19 02:44:08

'stupid feebsd' and a crashed plane

dalke | karma 11101 | avg karma 1.72 · 2012-09-19 08:04:14+00:00

"Copy that Gold Leader. I'm already on my way out." with X-wing. And "Becky?" Deep in the caves.

DanielRibeiro | karma 40139 | avg karma 9.74 · 2012-09-19 04:11:05

Nice catch. Direct link to the tile: http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/2n2w.png

lloeki | karma 11319 | avg karma 2.78 · 2012-09-19 09:27:49+00:00

I found the raptors (the author hates raptors).

rivo | karma 852 | avg karma 8.04 · 2012-09-19 02:40:05

A practical introduction to the Backtracking algorithm.

elssar | karma 179 | avg karma 1.9 · 2012-09-19 02:40:59

Phew, found both the edges, traversed all of the tunnels. Finally I'm free!

Also, really impressed. The way the tunnels on the left side met up with the Mario tunnel was pretty cool.

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vladoh | karma 783 | avg karma 5.08 · 2012-09-19 02:46:40

There are 4 edges :) Under the tunnels there is a whole new world ;)

elssar | karma 179 | avg karma 1.9 · 2012-09-19 07:49:00+00:00

4 edges o.0

You mean to say that under the tunnels, that is under all of the black, there is more? And there is more stuff in the air too?

Ima kill Randall Munroe >_<

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masklinn | karma 65147 | avg karma 3.36 · 2012-09-19 03:25:04

the "total image" is 165888 by 79872, fwiw.

http://edc.srvs.us/1110/ seems to have a pretty complete tiling

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Angostura | karma 15948 | avg karma 3.2 · 2012-09-19 05:52:34

Astonishing.

nicholassmith | karma 4055 | avg karma 2.43 · 2012-09-19 02:44:11

I just spent 5 minutes exploring and don't think I've seen even 25% of it. Had a grin from the off as well.

gkoberger | karma 25621 | avg karma 11.5 · 2012-09-19 02:45:59

Simple way to share positions:

var p =$('.map').position();prompt("Have someone run this code to see this position","$('.map').css({'left':"+p['left']+", 'top':"+p['top']+"})");

This gives you a snippet you can send to someone else to run.

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Also, don't want to drag? http://www.potch.me/blog/press-and-hold.html

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pestaa | karma 2223 | avg karma 1.74 · 2012-09-19 02:46:13

I had to stop because my hand began to hurt.

You have my deepest gratitude for reminding me what discovery and exploration feels like.

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potch | karma 1537 | avg karma 9.73 · 2012-09-19 07:46:43+00:00

I wrote some JS to add keyboard controls to the map, because clicking and dragging is for suckers. http://www.potch.me/blog/press-and-hold.html

dalke | karma 11101 | avg karma 1.72 · 2012-09-19 08:10:51+00:00

Thanks! Much easier.

nikcub | karma 18169 | avg karma 7.31 · 2012-09-19 09:16:01+00:00

as a bookmarklet:

    javascript:var kn=document.createElement('script');kn.src='//raw.github.com/gist/3748621/1bbdaee115134d0106978e42a5423f7b3e5de5e3/nav.js'; kn.type='text/javascript';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(kn);

potch | karma 1537 | avg karma 9.73 · 2012-09-19 09:42:15+00:00

Thanks!

I added a bookmarklet of the original code to the site- I know you're legit, but I'm always wary of encouraging people to load random external JS via a bookmarklet.

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nikcub | karma 18169 | avg karma 7.31 · 2012-09-19 05:33:20

I will steal your XKCD cookie and order a thousand t-shirts :)

Camillo | karma 3406 | avg karma 3.17 · 2012-09-19 09:21:58+00:00

I'm holding out for a version that lets me use two-finger scrolling.

iridium | karma 77 | avg karma 3.5 · 2012-09-19 09:46:24+00:00

Three finger scrolling works on a mac (Lion). I think you can enable drag lock on snow leopard for the same effect.

EDIT: The mouse does move off the view port during drag, so its probably not that much more efficient.

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jrajav | karma 2852 | avg karma 4.93 · 2012-09-19 10:40:52+00:00

In Lion, I'm pretty sure this only works if you enable "Three Finger Drag" in the trackpad settings.

Camillo | karma 3406 | avg karma 3.17 · 2012-09-19 12:18:29+00:00

Look at the Trackpad page in System Preferences. There's a reason why it's called "Three finger drag" instead of "Three finger scroll". :)

wccrawford | karma 16480 | avg karma 3.39 · 2012-09-19 12:21:33+00:00

Haha, I wrote some, too. I should have checked here before I bothered, I guess.

Ah well, it was a momentary amusement. :)

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andrewaylett | karma 3437 | avg karma 2.95 · 2012-09-19 12:55:25+00:00

I've integrated this into a full-screen view: http://ares.aylett.co.uk/xkcd/

xcraftllc | karma 1 | avg karma 1.0 · 2012-09-23 00:32:13+00:00

Thanks man, that's especially useful to find the Easter eggs since you can use ctrl + or - to zoom in and out and stay oriented. Between that, and using this as a map, you can pretty much check out the whole comic without getting frustrated: http://www.wickedglitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/resul...

francov88 | karma 157 | avg karma 2.45 · 2012-09-19 13:11:16+00:00

amazing. thanks!

Xcelerate | karma 10839 | avg karma 4.92 · 2012-09-19 02:51:19

I just downloaded the image tiles and explored the world that way. Quickest way to make sure I saw everything!

irfn | karma 43 | avg karma 0.81 · 2012-09-19 07:55:35+00:00

Click and Drag without the distraction. put javascript:$('img[title="Click and drag."]').hide();$('img[title="Click and drag."]').parent().css('overflow','visible'); in the url bar

subsystem | karma 3631 | avg karma 6.76 · 2012-09-19 03:01:15

full screen (at least in chrome):

    javascript:$('#comic').removeAttr('style'); $('.map').css('z-index',1).css('background','#fff');$('body').css('overflow','hidden');

nrkn | karma 622 | avg karma 6.41 · 2012-09-19 08:04:29+00:00

A map: http://imgur.com/GDJPL

amic | karma None | avg karma None · 2012-09-19 08:52:48+00:00

the white square at 11n11e is not at the good position on this map.

I wonder why 11n11e and 11s11e are empty.

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tim_heap | karma 3 | avg karma 1.0 · 2012-09-19 09:14:55+00:00

All of the 11x11y squares are empty, the south ones are just black instead of white. I've not worked out why yet.

maxerickson | karma 36996 | avg karma 2.02 · 2012-09-19 11:30:32

Somebody in another forum pointed out that 1111 is the next comic.

carlesfe | karma 4314 | avg karma 10.81 · 2012-09-19 03:06:41

Does the comic remind anybody else of Terraria? 2D scrollers are the best games...

ranman | karma 1435 | avg karma 3.6 · 2012-09-19 03:09:10

my hacky way of killing Randall's server:

  curl --limit-rate 40K -O http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/\[0-100\]\{n,s\}\[0-100\]\{e,w\}.png

Then to remove all the 404s:

  find . -type f -size 345c -exec rm -f {} \;

Woo! No code.

tonfa | karma 2151 | avg karma 2.4 · 2012-09-19 05:25:01

imgs.xkcd.com seems to point to a CDN, so it's unlikely to kill his server ;)

jlv2 | karma 611 | avg karma 4.49 · 2012-09-19 09:21:28

Use "curl -f" and it won't save the 404 output

V99 | karma 421 | avg karma 5.47 · 2012-09-19 08:15:22+00:00

1/8 scale (256x256 tiles): http://edc.srvs.us/1110-eighth/

1/4 scale (512x512 tiles): http://edc.srvs.us/1110-quarter/

1/2 scale (1024x1024 tiles): http://edc.srvs.us/1110-half/

full size (2048x2048 tiles): http://edc.srvs.us/1110/

None of them crash Chrome on my Mac, but good luck with that...

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reinierladan | karma 110 | avg karma 3.14 · 2012-09-19 09:24:38+00:00

I made a high res PDF (text balloons are readable) - http://s.rlink.co/JZ6G

carlesfe | karma 4314 | avg karma 10.81 · 2012-09-19 07:26:22

Thank you both!

alimbada | karma 803 | avg karma 2.48 · 2012-09-19 07:35:13

Thanks, that's the most usable version I've seen in this thread yet. You win 3 gold Internets.

reinierladan | karma 110 | avg karma 3.14 · 2012-09-19 12:44:47+00:00

This one is even more usefull: http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/ (give that guy a diamond Internets)

reinierladan | karma 110 | avg karma 3.14 · 2012-09-19 09:21:32

Dropbox says "This account's public links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!" so I put a backup on Cloud app: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4543626

bizzz | karma 1 | avg karma 1.0 · 2012-09-19 08:15:58+00:00

Ok, someone please glue all the tiles together! I can't wait to see all this magnificence!

wesleyholl | karma 1 | avg karma 1.0 · 2012-09-19 03:23:01

Here's my version of full map: http://www.wickedglitch.com/2012/09/full-low-res-image-spoil...

nikcub | karma 18169 | avg karma 7.31 · 2012-09-19 04:10:48

Don't use any of the spoilers, image maps or sites that stich it together, it is much more enjoyable when you discover the entire image through the viewport dimensions as originally intended.

It is also much more enjoyable when you don't know what to expect

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discountgenius | karma 443 | avg karma 5.21 · 2012-09-19 09:35:24+00:00

agreed. Much of the comedy comes from the subversion of expectations...

...although some nerds prefer figuring out puzzles. And yes, nerd in this case is a term of endearment.

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kunalb | karma 99 | avg karma 2.15 · 2012-09-19 09:26:30+00:00

My attempt at hammering the xkcd servers -- also colours missing tiles correctly (black/white depending on south/north): http://explog.in/xkcd.html

[edit: basically lays everything out in a single huge page so that you can scroll instead of dragging]

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chj | karma 1292 | avg karma 1.62 · 2012-09-19 09:27:40+00:00

Holy shit! I didn't expect it to be this big!

atas | karma 160 | avg karma 4.0 · 2012-09-19 09:32:53+00:00

And I thought it was going to be a short one. Got to get back to work. By the way, I play this game with Google Maps every day.

albertzeyer | karma 10334 | avg karma 5.8 · 2012-09-19 09:39:33+00:00

And have you already seen everything?

atas | karma 160 | avg karma 4.0 · 2012-09-19 10:56:04+00:00

Not really. I will continue at home.

vanhelsing_ | karma 2 | avg karma 2.0 · 2012-09-19 09:38:34+00:00

Someone make a large poster of this thing, quick!

xSkeen | karma 3 | avg karma 1.5 · 2012-09-19 09:41:09+00:00

The very last image to the right, "I wonder where i'll float next?" is a reference to Randall's first xkcd comic; http://xkcd.com/1/

xSkeen | karma 3 | avg karma 1.5 · 2012-09-19 09:41:19+00:00

The very last image to the right, "I wonder where i'll float next?" is a reference to Randall's first xkcd comic; http://xkcd.com/1/

reinierladan | karma 110 | avg karma 3.14 · 2012-09-19 09:48:00+00:00

I created a full high res PDF of the image (only 11MB), with readable text balloons. — http://s.rlink.co/JZ6G

ddreier | karma 25 | avg karma 2.27 · 2012-09-20 02:45:05+00:00

Could anyone create a torrent for this? Dropbox has killed the link.

RenierZA | karma 163 | avg karma 3.02 · 2012-09-19 10:15:55+00:00

I wonder if this is a world record for the biggest comic ever.

Does anybody know?

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Shivetya | karma 14380 | avg karma 2.55 · 2012-09-19 05:27:40

I was looking for where the spider was hiding.

daralthus | karma 743 | avg karma 2.12 · 2012-09-19 05:55:47

Reminds me of Scott McCloud's infinite canvas idea: http://scottmccloud.com/4-inventions/canvas/index.html Impressive by the way!

ekyo777 | karma 16 | avg karma 0.7 · 2012-09-19 06:49:01

For some reason I want to load that as a map in worms armageddon

arc_of_descent | karma 122 | avg karma 0.71 · 2012-09-19 06:58:43

This is just brilliant!

civild | karma 60 | avg karma 1.71 · 2012-09-19 12:31:26+00:00

Exploring this took me back to the days of playing the Dizzy series of games, wondering what was beyond the next screen.

brianbreslin | karma 3468 | avg karma 2.1 · 2012-09-19 07:52:27

this is strangely poetic

hackalyst | karma 5 | avg karma 1.0 · 2012-09-19 08:40:16

whats up with the dinos? http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/converted/10-297-507.png

bad_user | karma 29557 | avg karma 3.94 · 2012-09-19 14:59:25+00:00

A classic: http://xkcd.com/135/

goldins | karma 836 | avg karma 10.72 · 2012-09-19 08:54:25

I have made a very low-res polar coordinates version: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/543600/1110polar.png

I will make a larger version later tonight.

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LarryCurlyMoe | karma 2 | avg karma 2.0 · 2012-09-20 00:13:06

You guys do realize that new panels can be added to the world at any time (and existing ones can be modified). Who's to say the world is static?

codingSloth | karma 1 | avg karma 1.0 · 2012-09-20 10:58:13+00:00

I made a little grid with all the tiles on it (they are smaller than the original ones). I hope it makes the navigation easier... Each tile is clickable (it redirects to the original picture)

http://www.baffo.org/xkcd/

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