Analyzing XKCD: Click and Drag

http://blackhole12.blogspot.com/2012/09/analyzing-xkcd-click-and-drag.html

by malloc47 • 14 years ago

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blackhole12.blogspot.com

"If Randall spent, on average, one hour drawing each frame, it would take him 9.375 days of constant, nonstop work to finish this. If he instead spent an average of 10 minutes per frame, it would take ~37.5 hours, or almost an entire 40-hour work week."

This statement is a bit flawed since he doesn't differentiate between almost empty frames and frames with much detail. It obviously took longer to create frames with a lot of details than empty frames or frames with little detail.

Still, it's an interesting post. Randall clearly put a lot of time and effort into creating the "Click and drag" world.

rquantz• 14 years ago

He did say "on average."

mistercow2• 14 years ago

Yeah, but that might be a poor estimate for the average since the majority of frames are either pure black or pure white.

Zarathust• 14 years ago

Anyone managed to stitch together the full picture?

bjarkijonasson2• 14 years ago

A lot of people, the current top link on HN is this http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/ an interactive "map" of the click and drag world.

dagar2• 14 years ago

http://dagar.ca/xkcd_1110_combined_256.png

smlacy2• 14 years ago

That's scaled down -- do you have a full full full resolution?

laacz• 14 years ago

I believe, that time Randall spent planning and sketching before actually drawing it, should be taken in account. I really hope Randall (though he is not very open on such things) would give "making of" info.

eSyr2• 14 years ago

http://libesyr.so/dump/montage.png http://libesyr.so/dump/montage_small.png

Analyzing XKCD: Click and Drag

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