The Cover of The Sun Also Rises

[adregan]

I generated this in the middle of Nov. and forgot to submit it: alsorises.org

The code used to generate it is here (the scripts are in the book_scripts dir): https://github.com/adregan/pnger

I took a picture of the cover of The Sun Also Rises converted it to a PNG and then decoded the PNG and for each pixel got the nearest named color. It's 800 chapters long and 803,218 word (according to wc). There is also an audio book version that's 173 hours and like 2.5 gigs.

[hugovk]

Wow!

[greg-kennedy]

Chapter 786 includes a sentence "Black, invisible."... It looks like your image had exactly one transparent (alpha-channel=0) pixel! This may be the highlight of the entire novel.

I couldn't read 800 chapters of this, so I coded a script to do it for me. Consider this the Cliff's Notes version:

[adregan]

That is amazing @greg-kennedy! And I did in fact delete a single pixel leaving a transparent hole. There was a practical reason (seemingly), but I'm glad it's taken on a new life.

[hugovk]

It's great the original image was preserved so well in the book!

For your next trick, @greg-kennedy, decode the cover from the audiobook.

[muffinista]

Wow, this is awesome, well done! It's random, but at certain screen sizes it seems like you can't click on a couple links:

Neither "read online" or the hidden link are clickable for me, although resizing fixes it.

[adregan]

I forgot about that bug. Do you by chance have scrollbars on @muffinista?

I need to try to fix this up. The problem is that I am using the css viewport relative units and for some reason, the browser isn't taking into account the scrollbars, so the elements are as large as if there weren't scrollbars but behave as if the width of the viewport is the width with the scrollbars.

[muffinista]

I think I do? I have a vertical scrollbar on the page anyway. Here's a bigger screenshot:

[adregan]

There are the scrollbars :D. I added a quick fix, so you should be able to read all the text now.