Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024)

Posted by chilipepperhott 2 days ago

Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024)(ednamode.xyz)

57 points | 14 comments

lxe 2 days ago|

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?

pieterr 2 days ago||

More context:

https://eieio.games/blog/the-secret-inside-one-million-check...

lxe 2 days ago||

Aaaah this fills in the gaps! Thanks!

ednaordinary 2 days ago||

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!

keysdev 2 days ago||

Is there a demo or git of the page?

ednaordinary 2 days ago||

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

XiS 2 days ago||

It's JinglePing all over again

Jonovono 2 days ago||

Reminds me of rasterbation!

mrkramer 2 days ago|

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

deadbabe 2 days ago||

excellent choice in gif

retsibsi 2 days ago||

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.

banana_giraffe 2 days ago||

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.

peeters 2 days ago||

Yeah that's a very bad idea.

ednaordinary 2 days ago|||

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.