These are sections of the World's Tallest Virtual Building (if link is busted see my update below), a collaborative pixelist project that should provide hours of astonished amusement. Unfortunately the bubble wall got trimmed on the floor with the homicidal bears, but you get the idea. This is another example of the internet being way ahead of all those seminars about "databases in collaboration" and whatnot, and it may be one of the few "exquisite corpse" ideas that actually works. I love how European it is, inevitable McDonald's "flythrough" notwithstanding. In case you're new to the pixel art craze ( ), each floor is drawn in the "fat bits" or zoom mode of a simple paint program, so we're talking uncountable hours of plugging in little squares to make this sucker. (hat tip to Cory A.)
UPDATE: I guess this site got too popular because the link is no longer good. If anyone notices it back up or at a new location please let me know. In the meantime, I saved a few of the images. They're not stacked like they're supposed to be. Think of it as an html jigsaw puzzle. UPDATE TO UPDATE: The site's back up! Yay!
Not sure if you've seen this, nor how good (or bad) it is, but here's a pixel art BBS I saw on memepool.
And oh yeah, here's the serious critique section.
Thanks, that's hardcore stuff. They're discussing, among other things, making their own software just to do pixel art. Here's a screenshot of a program in development.
link to building no longer works... :-(
Thanks--probably bandwidth issues; a lot of pages linked to it. Here's the Google cache (now dead too).
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These are sections of the World's Tallest Virtual Building (if link is busted see my update below), a collaborative pixelist project that should provide hours of astonished amusement. Unfortunately the bubble wall got trimmed on the floor with the homicidal bears, but you get the idea. This is another example of the internet being way ahead of all those seminars about "databases in collaboration" and whatnot, and it may be one of the few "exquisite corpse" ideas that actually works. I love how European it is, inevitable McDonald's "flythrough" notwithstanding. In case you're new to the pixel art craze (
), each floor is drawn in the "fat bits" or zoom mode of a simple paint program, so we're talking uncountable hours of plugging in little squares to make this sucker. (hat tip to Cory A.)
UPDATE: I guess this site got too popular because the link is no longer good. If anyone notices it back up or at a new location please let me know. In the meantime, I saved a few of the images. They're not stacked like they're supposed to be. Think of it as an html jigsaw puzzle. UPDATE TO UPDATE: The site's back up! Yay!
- tom moody 7-21-2003 5:01 am
Not sure if you've seen this, nor how good (or bad) it is, but here's a pixel art BBS I saw on memepool.
- jim 7-21-2003 7:45 pm
And oh yeah, here's the serious critique section.
- jim 7-21-2003 7:47 pm
Thanks, that's hardcore stuff. They're discussing, among other things, making their own software just to do pixel art. Here's a screenshot of a program in development.
- tom moody 7-21-2003 8:29 pm
link to building no longer works... :-(
- tim 7-29-2003 12:56 am
Thanks--probably bandwidth issues; a lot of pages linked to it. Here's the Google cache (now dead too).
- tom moody 7-29-2003 1:20 am