Re: In the category of "Too Much Time on their Hands" this year's winner is....

On Wed, 07 May 2008 08:23:33 -0400, Fred Doyle <fdoyle1@nycap.rr.com>
wrote:

>tomasio wrote:
>> On 2008-05-06 02:34:36 +0200, Fred Doyle <fdoyle1@nycap.rr.com> said:
>> 
>>> Envelope please......
>>>
>>> Homer CSS (http://www.romancortes.com/blog/homer-css/) and George Bush 
>>> CSS (http://www.romancortes.com/blog/bush-css/).
>>>
>>> Two images rendered entirely with CSS and text. You got to love it. As 
>>> they said at slash-dot, it is the 2008 version of ascii art.
>>>
>>> Fred
>> 
>> Definitely. Great fun ; )
>
>Yeah, that's what's great about it, its fun, but demonstrates an 
>incredible level of skill.

Not really, it's like Turtle Graphics for MS Paint:
http://img.zdnet.com/techDirectory/TURTGRAF.GIF

*snicker*

Quite a step backwards if you ask me.  Not to mention that it likely
won't take someone very long to create a program that can accept any
image as its input and will then auto-generate CSS code to "rebuild"
the graphic.  In fact, I could write such a program in about two
hours.

All it needs to do is look at each pixel value and then use a form
like:

: <div style="position:absolute; left:1px; top:1px; width:1px; height:1px
background-color:red;">

Woah, hard.  Here's a quick sample:
http://www.backwater-productions.net/_test_platform/CSS_Generated_Blooper.html

A blooper squid from Mario Brothers.  See how simple that is?  Just
assign a colored div to each pixel.  Hell you could even do animations
like that...why the fuck you would want to I'm not sure, it certainly
would not be any kind of "technical achievement".

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