Re: Fwd: 7 Billion World - 7 billion people on 1 page

Posted by Steve Smith on Apr 14, 2013; 7:24pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Fwd-7-Billion-World-7-billion-people-on-1-page-tp7582731p7582738.html

See, I always knew the world population wasn't *THAT* big, it fits into a single web-page after all!

And to Ron and Merle, you were right, you CAN get 7Billion people on the "same page!  And they all LOOK happy.

I tried zooming out with my cmd-"-" key and got down about 6 levels of zoom before it bottomed out.

Don't try printing this out at home... do it at work... over the weekend... bring a truck... or better yet, print it from your boss's computer...

I've run a browser over a screen as large as 6kx4k before, but there *are* powerwalls out there many times that large... (96 Mpixels or so?).  Even at 1 pixel/human...  that is 2 orders of magnitude shy?

I think in answer to Robert's question... zoom and scan until you find the one jumping up and down trying to get your attention!  Or just grep for the <blink> tag.

I took a gander at the page source... and naturally, it does not contain images of 7 Billion paper dolls.  I didn't drill down any further, has anyone else sorted how they do this? 

For Nick's benefit, do they use iteration or recursion?

clicking through to the "WorldOmeter" was entertaining, but left me (as always) wanting more (context).

- Steve

How do I find which one is me!
Robert C
(snicker)

On 4/14/13 9:04 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:

From Twitter by David Brin, retweeted by Lessig:

   

http://www.7billionworld.com/

.. Don't forget the page scrolls both directions!

Nice way to get an idea just how big a billion is!

   -- Owen

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