Alan Johnson <a...@datdec.com> writes: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Ben Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen > > <roz...@geekspace.com> wrote: > > > ... thwarted by the unholy amount of hole-iness in the map: > > > you can't just start at the center, walk until you hit `the end' > > > of the world ... > > > > Why not? > > > Your suggestion does not disprove his claim that you can't walk to the end > since their are several false ends. Personally, I don't think something > that tries to walk to the end is all that brutish. =)
Well, it's at least barbarian ;) > > I mean, I get that not all the tile locations actually > > have image files there, but presumably you just get the 404 error and > > move on. > > > > wget hxxp://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/{1..256}{n,s}{1..256}{e,w}.png > > > > Granted, this would hammer the server with lots of requests for > > non-existent files. And I imagine it would take some time to run > > through 256*256*2*2 HTTP GET requests. And maybe hit command line > > length limits. So polite or efficient, it's not. But if you want > > brute force and ignorance.... :) > > > > > I got around the command line issue by dumping a list of generated URLs to > a file and then feeding that file to wget: > ajohnson@helium:~/tmp/xkcdclickdrag$ for v in n s; do for h in e w; do for > x in `seq 100`; do for y in `seq 1 100`; do echo > http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/$y$v$x$h.png; done; done; done; done > urls > ajohnson@helium:~/tmp/xkcdclickdrag$ wget -qi urls xargs FTW. Though, actually..., you should be able to just pipe stdout from that loop directly into "wget -qi", shouldn't you? But, if you want be more *magically bruticious*, try parallel: http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ You can also use cURL in stead of wget, and just use cURL's range/set syntax: curl -f -JO 'http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/[1-100]{n,s}[1-100]{e,w}.png' > I narrowed it down to x max of 40 and y max of 20 after reading some forum > posts. > > I quit googling for programmatic ways to stitch the pngs together when, > after reading a bit of the forum posts for this comic, I realized that > others with much more time on their hands would solve the problem much more > completely while I focused on not getting fired. =) > > Side note: I was hoping, or expecting, it would wrap at all the edges. =) > > Another side note: All this hacking is fun and all, but the panel is much > more fun to explore without zooming or mapping. It is just a wicked time > sync. I'll probably spend some time with my kids looking around the > original version this weekend. Or... maybe we will go out and explore the > real world a bit. =) Yeah. See, that's all part of the `moral-ambiguity' (as opposed to `moral ambiguity') part of the story. Most. Evil. Comic. Ever. :) -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/