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Eli

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Sep 19, 2012, 3:50:20 AM9/19/12
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For those of you who've missed it, today's XKCD comic is pretty darned amazing: http://xkcd.com/1110/

Joshua Ng

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Sep 19, 2012, 3:53:11 AM9/19/12
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Totally agree. 15minutes on and I think I haven't finish exploring. 


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Joey Cody

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Sep 19, 2012, 4:02:51 AM9/19/12
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Rad. Any JS or source hacks to view the whole image? (Not on my computer)

Andrew Ching

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Sep 19, 2012, 4:19:07 AM9/19/12
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Not advisable. Way too many images. At just the ground level there are 33 + 48 + 1 = 82 images. Each image is 2048 x 2048.

The ends:
west: http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/1n33w.png
east: http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/1n48e.png

Nishanth S

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Sep 19, 2012, 4:20:59 AM9/19/12
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Wow. 

As far as I can observe, we have 
ground level : 1n33w to 1n49e - 82 images, 
east bridge thingy goes till 7n27e (base from 2n22e to 2n32e)  = 31 images, 
west tower 2n2w to 8n2w - 7 images
plus there are some underground stuff / extensions of the tower

total > 120 images each at 2048*2048 which is more than 500 Megapixels. Woah!

Nishanth

Eli

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Sep 19, 2012, 4:26:09 AM9/19/12
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There's underground stuff?! Oh. Crap. Must have missed those.

Nishanth S

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Sep 19, 2012, 4:28:30 AM9/19/12
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Not many.. this is the only one i found.
http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/1s6w.png

Nishanth

Eli

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Sep 19, 2012, 4:30:51 AM9/19/12
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I just found a complete map: http://www.wickedglitch.com/2012/09/full-low-res-image-spoiler-map-xkcds-click-and-drag/ 

(You'll have to download and view it with something else - as the blog post says, it's too big for most browsers).

Apparently there's a whole other world under the tunnels.

Ced

Bach Le

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Sep 19, 2012, 4:31:51 AM9/19/12
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The good folks didn't obfuscate their code: http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/1110.js . Who's free enough to make a better viewer(with keyboard navigation and zooming?)

Rahul AG

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Sep 19, 2012, 4:33:52 AM9/19/12
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It renders just fine on my iPad o.O

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Nishanth S

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Sep 19, 2012, 4:34:58 AM9/19/12
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yup, the image works fine.. 

Nishanth

Divyanshu Arora

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Sep 19, 2012, 4:35:31 AM9/19/12
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Key navigation
http://www.potch.me/blog/press-and-hold.html

Shanmugam

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Sep 19, 2012, 8:45:12 AM9/19/12
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I downloaded all the images, and then realized this existed:

Joshua Ng

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Sep 19, 2012, 2:03:20 PM9/19/12
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Oh yes another world underground.... I was following the tunnels and 30 minutes passed just like that....


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Nishanth S

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Sep 19, 2012, 6:33:25 PM9/19/12
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http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/
With the keyboard hack, this makes it simple enough to navigate.

I wonder how many hours it took to make it though. Only Randall Munroe works on the comics right?

Nishanth

Ruiwen Chua

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Sep 19, 2012, 9:55:34 PM9/19/12
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I'm waiting for him to publish stats on how many people clicked where, percentage explored and so on =P
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