[HN Gopher] Floor796
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Floor796
Author : gtirloni
Score : 468 points
Date : 2024-05-18 17:50 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (floor796.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (floor796.com)
| yankoff wrote:
| Here is what the project is about (translated from Russian by
| chatgpt)
|
| Floor796 is an ever-expanding animated scene depicting life on
| the 796th floor of a massive space station!
|
| The goal of the project is to create an animation as vast as
| possible, filled with numerous references to movies, games,
| anime, and memes.
|
| Most characters are clickable: you can find out who the character
| is and follow a link to the source. Non-clickable characters are
| fictional.
|
| All scenes are drawn by a single person as a hobby in a special
| online editor (https://floor796.com/editor/l0) directly in the
| browser. The drawing process of some blocks can be watched on
| https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCribkEGzOuMQ9ozb0ektMCQ.
| beeboobaa3 wrote:
| FYI they have an english description. Just select english in
| the top right (which it defaulted to, for me), then click
| About. There are some mistranslations above.
| lupire wrote:
| Discussed on HN annually
|
| https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Floor796
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| 2023 edition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35510067
| throwup238 wrote:
| Someone should make a _Best of HN Karma Farming_ list with all
| the most frequent front page links.
| guessmyname wrote:
| This link is much better -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=floor796.com
| standardUser wrote:
| I love this project. I'll often put it on "wandering" mode on my
| large monitor while I work on my laptop. There's a few
| interactive components as well.
| E39M5S62 wrote:
| How do you do wandering mode?
| Nicksil wrote:
| >How do you do wandering mode?
|
| Top-right of window
| E39M5S62 wrote:
| Ahh. Hidden on mobile!
| metadat wrote:
| This is THE BEST!!! I have it bookmarked and revisit a few times
| a year at least, because they keep adding to it regularly.
|
| It's like where's Waldo on mind altering substances.
| somethingsome wrote:
| If you subscribe you receive a mail with the new added cell
| automatically ;)
| dzhiurgis wrote:
| I'm sure I've bookmarked it too, but few weeks tried to search
| for it and just no way my keywords worked
| banish-m4 wrote:
| I can't help thinking about Kool Keith's _Apartment 223._ This
| must be what went on in that MacGuffin.
| dddw wrote:
| Now that's a reference I didn't suspect to read on HN
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I've always wanted a coding project like this, that has a lot of
| breadth rather than depth.
|
| By that I mean it would take a day or two to set up the basics
| and then I could keep adding to it, an hour here or there, for
| years.
|
| The problem is that when I tried this a few times with various
| games, the breadth ended up having nothing to do with coding.
| Perhaps there just isn't a kind of coding task/problem/toy/gadget
| that works this way.
| canthonytucci wrote:
| Porting/translating/rewriting something from one language to
| another could be like that.
| jfoutz wrote:
| Did you try math? You can shallowly cover miles and miles of
| math. And extend it every day or month or whatever works for
| you, forever.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I did try math but math found me unworthy of its secrets.
| metflex wrote:
| I'm in love with this
| latchkey wrote:
| Discussions on similar submissions:
|
| _Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a
| space station_ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35510067
| (April 10, 2023 -- 1066 points, 118 comments)
|
| _Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a
| space station_ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33612401
| (November 15, 2022 -- 776 points, 88 comments)
| lobito14 wrote:
| So much talent and devotion, I'm deeply baffled by this project.
| Does anyone knows the real name of the artist ?
| uhx wrote:
| Not that much Here is an article about implementation from the
| author (translate it from russian): google "habr floor796"
| romanhn wrote:
| Found an interview with him from November 2023
| (https://runet.news/interview/50112). His name is Pavel
| Sannikov, is in his 30s, from Belarus. He's been working on it
| since 2018, entirely solo. Apparently spends 3-4 hours a day on
| it after work, and 8-10 hours a day on weekends! Not a
| commercial venture, just doing it for fun.
| lobito14 wrote:
| Author is Belarusian, not Russian, contrary to what many other
| comments say.
| yreg wrote:
| Not a single comment in this thread says the author is Russian.
| throwaway290 wrote:
| In other threads from 2022 and 2023 they do
| Aeolun wrote:
| Does it really matter? Even if they were, it's still amazing.
| beretguy wrote:
| Yes, it matters, considering russia historically loves to
| genocide cultures/languages/countries. It's currently trying
| to genocide Ukraine.
| armchairhacker wrote:
| Government != people. Russia has a population of >140
| million and not a democracy, you can't accurately assume
| anything about a random civilian's stance on Ukraine.
| epgui wrote:
| The parent commenter didn't say anything about civilian
| Russians.
| ivm wrote:
| Yes, it matters a lot with regard to the colonial history
| where Russian, Soviet, and Tsarist governments have tried
| many times to eliminate the local cultures and identities of
| both indigenous peoples and other Slavic neighbors like
| Belarusians and Ukrainians.
| antisthenes wrote:
| You have to be quite delusional or historically ignorant to
| think that current "civilized" Western nations didn't do
| the same in the Age of Sail or British India or colonizing
| Africa.
|
| For some reason I don't see your posts condemning that in
| every other thread?
| qwerty456127 wrote:
| Belorussian vs Russian has little to no difference in terms of
| contemporary cultural background. The references we see in this
| demo clearly are what the whole Soviet Russian
| (Russia+Ukraine+Belarus+Kazakhstan etc) cultural space has been
| exposed to during the recent decades: American + Some European
| + domestic Soviet Russian retro + some Japanese (anime). This
| already looks extremely cool (a masterpiece of art!) yet it can
| be made even cooler (more interesting, also potentially a work
| of cultural science) by expanding to include more ethnically
| niche memes from other cultures.
| lambdaxyzw wrote:
| This is like saying that American or Canadian has little to
| no difference in terms of contemporary cultural background.
| Technically true, but it's still a bit rude to confuse both
| nationalities.
| snowpid wrote:
| A better comparision would be WASP American with
| Indigenious people. People died to be Belorussian.
| BSOhealth wrote:
| this reminds me of some of the collaborative pixel art sites in
| the late 90s/early 00s, where you'd reserve some blocks and a
| bunch of us would contribute. any internet historians out there
| with some archive links? can't remember at all...
| austinjp wrote:
| How about the million dollar homepage:
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
|
| Edit: Hmm not really what you were looking for, on reflection.
| But I'll leave this anyway, the MDH had its own charms.
| smusamashah wrote:
| Not from 90s but there is ourworldofpixels.com
| smusamashah wrote:
| A relevant project in a sense that it's an always expanding
| collaborative pixel infinite (sort of) canvas is
| https://ourworldofpixels.com/ it's similar in being a very
| detailed and huge.
|
| Reddit /r/place might have been inspired by this or this by
| /r/place. On here you will find some special worlds, e.g. there
| is one with so many ships drawn, one with flags, one with a huge
| fantasy world map. There may be more interesting ones but these
| are the ones I discovered.
|
| https://ourworldofpixels.com/countrysim
|
| https://ourworldofpixels.com/planetsim
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| https://ourworldofpixels.com/jpdld
|
| There is also https://yourworldoftext.com which is same idea but
| in text format.
| smusamashah wrote:
| https://www.reddit.com/r/wimmelbilder/ is probably the only big
| collection of very detailed art like floor796. No animations
| here though. This sub is restrictive in what and how you post
| and has therefore kept its quality over the years.
| smusamashah wrote:
| FYI, but lots of elements in there are interactive. There are
| some screens you can click and they will change there animations.
| Some things trigger sounds. There is even a game if I remember
| correctly.
| jachee wrote:
| This is the most _Ready Player One_ vs. Where's Waldo thing I
| have seen in a long time. I love it!
| jimmySixDOF wrote:
| I have put it up in a VR browser full size and close up so its
| amose all field of view and its amazing would love to see this
| get nerfed/gaussian splatted or otherwise add depth parallelex
| or one day get the full immersive walk through treatment.
| Geee wrote:
| I expected to find Doctor Who and TARDIS there, but they seem to
| be missing from the party.
| romanows wrote:
| There's a Dalek in a room on the lower left, looks like a kind
| of police booking room. Scooby and the gang are just above
| them.
| Geee wrote:
| Oh, thanks! Now I realized you can search characters from the
| changes menu.
| snagglemouth wrote:
| Okay, that's actually amazing. Bravo!
| sshh12 wrote:
| Reminds me of this infinite somewhat realistic collaborative map
| I made a while back.
|
| https://terrain.sshh.io/
|
| Uses stable diffusion in painting to expand out "infinitely".
| peddling-brink wrote:
| Would love to see this packaged as an actually self hosted app.
| Very very cool!
| brothrock wrote:
| I am a huge fan. This is an amazing project. An absolute artifact
| of the Internet, as it should be.
|
| I have lost many hours here, and have shared with many
|
| I'm not worthy.
| cdchn wrote:
| This site showed me a popup telling me that I had less than 10%
| battery life left and that this site could accelerate the drain,
| which I thought was hilarious.
| nohuck13 wrote:
| Same. I didn't know this was something web pages could collect.
| Apparently these days only Chrome on Android still supports it.
|
| Found this helpful comment about the background and timeline
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38417192
|
| The battery API was rolled out by all the major browsers
| between 2012 and 2014 as a way to let web pages avoid doing
| compute-intensive stuff on low battery, but it was pretty much
| immediately used for fingerprinting as the battery level number
| was so precise that if you hit two web pages at the same time,
| the battery level was as good as a cookie. Firefox and
| Safari/Webkit disabled it in 2016 but Chrome just capped the
| precision at two digits.
| cdchn wrote:
| Worked for me with Chrome on macOS.
| deaddodo wrote:
| > but Chrome just capped the precision at two digits.
|
| Seems like just giving a straight integer would be enough for
| the main intention. Or fuzz the decimal points, if higher
| precision is really needed.
| throwaway425933 wrote:
| Great project. Are there any other such projects out there?
| kibwen wrote:
| A recent one is XKCD's "Machine", which is a collaborative
| crowdsourced physics sculpture/art project:
| https://xkcd.com/2916 (click "View Machine" in the corner to
| browse the machine).
| rahkiin wrote:
| 'IE v166' hits different now there is an actual 'Chrome v126'
| tempodox wrote:
| My favorite space station. Neo and Morpheus are there. Has anyone
| seen Takeshi Kovacs yet?
| chasil wrote:
| You won't recognize him, as he is not in a familiar sleeve.
| fwip wrote:
| I was having a nice time browsing it - it's a shame that they
| decided to stick a transphobic "meme" in the women's bathroom.
| asm0dey wrote:
| Never saw it, that's a shame if it's there
| Freak_NL wrote:
| This one? https://floor796.com/#t0r0,697,577
|
| Given that this meme, while distasteful, was quite popular, the
| reason it was included may just that: its popularity. There is
| more edgy content on the station (like the 'bear' wanted poster
| in the police station); some of that might be explained by the
| author's cultural sphere (Belarus), but I doubt it was intended
| as explicit anti-trans messaging (at least, I wouldn't draw
| that conclusion without any other context beyond its
| inclusion).
| xippy wrote:
| That gave me a chuckle when I saw it, it's such an iconic meme.
| The original video never stops being amusing, I mean really the
| whole scenario is so ridiculous.
| system2 wrote:
| The matrix made me laugh more than it was supposed to...
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