Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024)
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·July 3, 2025lxe
ednaordinary
author here! I mostly assumed the reader had some context for this blog around omcb since it had gone viral and I posted it in circles already familiar, but looking back that wasn't a great decision. I'll likely revise this blog soon as there's a few other things I thought I didn't explain well. thanks for your feedback!
keysdev
Is there a demo or git of the page?
ednaordinary
omcb is available but only in single player mode now: https://onemillioncheckboxes.com/
Jonovono
Reminds me of rasterbation!
mrkramer
Reminds me of those videos where people make computers and games within Minecraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDiapbD0Xfg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BP7DhHTU-I
retsibsi
Sorry to go meta, but this is the first site I've visited that actively fights back when I try to zoom out (or in, but the text is already very big by default)! I'm wondering if it's deliberate (why??) or a side effect of something else.
banana_giraffe
The site uses "font-size: calc(1.5vw + 1.5vh);" or some variant, for most of the sizes, which has the effect to lock the size for everything to the size of the viewport, regardless of zoom.
peeters
Yeah that's a very bad idea.
ednaordinary
hi! This is mostly due to my opinions around scaling but I didn't realize it impacted zoom so much, I'm not primarily a web dev. I'll change this to conform soon.
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This is cool but was hard to read because I think it lacks some context... so "one of my friends" made a site where anyone could toggle a checkbox on a large canvas of checkboxes?
And you (author?) set up a script to automatically toggle a bunch of them at a at a time to anime a short video of Jake Gyllenhaal?
Was this done via rendering the site and toggling appropriate coordinates, or through an endpoint/API?