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LGP Announces New Competition

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the winner-is-extremely-bored dept.

Time Doctor writes "Linux Game Publishing announced its new game competition today, wherein an image relating to the game is revealed one pixel a second and competitors can attempt to be the first to guess it. Winner gets the first copy of the game, and the unofficial award of having way too much time on their hands to sit around waiting for pixels to change."

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  1. Faster! Faster! by Phrogz · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "...an image relating to the game is revealed one pixel a second... and the unofficial award of having way too much time on their hands to sit around waiting for pixels to change."
    Are we so ADD these days that once per second is way too slow to wait for something?
  2. JPEG?! by dmitriy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    JPEG image can't be revealed one pixel at a time. JPEG image consists of 16x16 MCU (Minimal Coding Units) encoded with DCT and high harmonics discarded (actually, there's more to this). Changing one pixel before encoding changes the whole 16x16 square.

  3. Re:Assumming it's a 160x120 pixel image... by Oculus+Habent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The full image is 1280x960. 14 days for the full image.

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