Xkcd:1110
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:author: Aaron Ball
:email: nullspoon@iohq.net


I really like the webcomic http://xkcd.com[xkcd]. Its author, Randall, is
hilarious. If you don't read this comic, you definitely should.

Recently Randall http://xkcd.com/1110[drew one] that blew my mind (seriously,
there are brains everywhere). He basically made what looks to be a 100x100
(there are some empty tiles in there so that's not super accurate) grid of a
sad, yet wonderful world. This world, populated by javascript, will take you a
tremendous amount of time to scroll through.  I can only imagine how much time
this took him to make.

Well, not to put all of that work to waste, but I decided I wanted to assemble
the entire grid into a single image. The first step to that is to download the
entire grid of images. With that, I wrote a script.

Currently, that script is downloading all of that commic with a .2 second sleep
time between images (no DOSing for me). I will post back here with a zip file
containing every image and as soon as I have the time, I will write a script to
automagically assemble the entire thing!  I will also post that here.

However, first things first (as I said). The first script to download the
entire commic looks like so (yes, I'm sure there are more efficient ways to do
this)

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#!/bin/bash
for n in {0..50..1}; do
  # Quadrant 1
  for e in {0..50..1}; do
    wget "http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/"$n"n"$e"e.png" && echo $n"n"$e"e.png"
    sleep .2;
  done

  # Quadrant 2
  for w in {0..50..1}; do
    wget "http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/"$n"n"$w"w.png" && echo $n"n"$w"w.png"
    sleep .2;
  done
done

for s in {1..50..1}; do
  # Quadrant 3
  for w in {0..50..1}; do
    wget "http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/"$s"s"$w"w.png" && echo $s"s"$w"w.png"
    sleep .2;
  done

  # Quadrant 4
  for e in {0..50..1}; do
    wget "http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/"$s"s"$e"e.png" echo $s"s"$e"e.png"
    sleep .2;
  done
done
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Category:xkcd
Category:Linux
Category:Scripting


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