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xkcd's 13-Gigapixel Webcomic

Posted by Soulskill on from the all-the-pixels-you-need-and-more dept.

New submitter Nomen writes "Today's xkcd: Click and Drag (Google Maps version) is probably the world's biggest web comic at an RSI-inducing resolution of 165,888x79,872 pixels. It's made up of 225 different images that take up 5.52MB of space. Now, if only the mines were powered by nethack..."

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  1. Re:Not all that impressive by Zocalo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Soooo... Glass half empty kind of guy, huh?

    Give Randall some credit, this must have taken ages to put together, and is all the more impressive once you realise that it's more or less all draw to the scale. The real mindfsck is when you read the comment from the girl on the far left and work out that, despite all of that apparently vast area to explore, the whole thing represents is only about five miles from one side to the other. I just didn't expect it [the drawing] to be so small!

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  2. Big View in Chrome: by CanHasDIY · · Score: 5, Informative

    - Right click the comic, select "Inspect Element"

    - in the console, expand the "middleContainer" div

    - select the "comic" div

    - in the box on the right of the console, uncheck "overflow:hidden"

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