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HTML Eight Million Copies of Moby-Dick (2014)
yazantapuz wrote 18 hours 38 min ago:
For some reason, it remained me of Borges' Pierre Menard, Author of the
Quixote:
HTML [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Qui...
Finnucane wrote 22 hours 6 min ago:
Long ago when reading slush for a NY publisher, I opened a package to
find a 'manuscript' purporting to prove that the real value of pi was
22/7. 22/7 is a repeating decimal, which was typed out at length to
cover one page. That page was then duplicated, at smaller sizes, until
there was a page that was just covered in unreadable rectangular
blocks. Then the page of unreadable blocks was copied for another 700
pages, and bound in stiff boards. The effect of flipping through it was
much the same as described here, with the additional undertone of
insanity.
dr0p wrote 22 hours 11 min ago:
that's a lot of Moby dick(s)
nocoiner wrote 18 hours 58 min ago:
Mobies Dick.
williamDafoe wrote 22 hours 19 min ago:
I have a feeling the author compressed 8 million copies of Moby Dick
with LZW compression using a huge token cache, then printed the binary
results in a 1000-page book. Each successive copy would become smaller
and smaller.
morellt wrote 22 hours 39 min ago:
I think i figured it out.
1000 pages of images with 40 rows and 200 columns of the repeating
pattern of three dark squares with one light square vertically
oriented. 1000x40x200 is 8,000,000.
I think those slivers are the cover of the Moby Dick it parodies, with
each cover overlaid on the last, and the resolution absolutely
destroyed to save storage space.
soupfordummies wrote 23 hours 14 min ago:
well this is an interesting rabbit hole!
hiccuphippo wrote 23 hours 51 min ago:
Maybe use ffmpeg to convert the pages into a video to see if anything
changes?
kibwen wrote 20 hours 16 min ago:
Seven days later they find your dead body in front of the television,
sopping wet and inexplicably flat.
egypturnash wrote 21 hours 35 min ago:
Just load it into a pdf viewer, set it to display single pages with
no scrolling, and hit the ânext pageâ key.
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