| ▲ | Floor796(floor796.com) |
| 762 points by krtkush a day ago | 96 comments |
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| ▲ | smusamashah 17 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The editor that is used to draw these animations https://floor796.com/editor/l0 Author has a YouTube channel too somewhere where you can see him making a drawing start to end. (edit: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCribkEGzOuMQ9ozb0ektMCQ) From FAQs > The creation of Floor796 started in 2018. I spent the first year creating the animation editor, the rendering engine and the site itself. Then I started drawing the first characters. I drew slowly at first, as I had to get used to the projection and constantly improve the animation editor. I've been creating the first block for over 8 months. Now I draw 1 block in about 1-1.5 months. Author made everything, including the editor, by himself. |
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| ▲ | mapcars 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | Thats curious, there are multiple Russian and even Soviet-era characters which I don't think western people know about. | | |
| ▲ | Rendello 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | You can click characters to show who they are, as well. | |
| ▲ | mojuba 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Definitely too many to be random. I think they are all mostly soviet era things, no? So the author is likely an émigré from the USSR. | | |
| ▲ | cubefox 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | Why émigré? He is probably Russian. | | |
| ▲ | PeterHolzwarth 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but it would be more correct to say that the author/artist is likely from a country that uses the Cyrillic script. | | |
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| ▲ | tartoran 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I just spotted Steven Segal is munching on a carrot. |
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| ▲ | buybackoff 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| For some time recently, I was zooming in on Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. The floor's level of interactivity would be so nice there. At least on this floor, I can guess what's going on quite reliably. The experience is quite similar at some level though. I saw Bosch's originals (or 1-to-1 by size repros) many years ago and without zooming in, it was incomprehensible. With zoom, the details are overwhelming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights... |
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| ▲ | jmkd 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Note this digitisation was by a company called Mad Pixel, and supported by Google in 2009. It was the first experiment that later became the Google Art Project in 2011 (now Google Arts & Culture). |
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| ▲ | krelian 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This has been making the rounds for the years and I think what captivates me the most is the art style. There is something about it I cannot put my finger on. Just like the art style of Moebius or the 90's game Flashback. |
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| ▲ | jofzar 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | To me it has very Habbo hotel like graphics, not the same but it hits the same "itch". Specifically with the dancing. | |
| ▲ | vitaflo 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I thought for sure this was eBoy at first. The style is similar and eBoy has been around forever but looks like it’s just someone else who is really good at this stuff. https://www.eboy.com/ | | | |
| ▲ | Findecanor 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The art style reminds me a bit of that of Al Jaffee in MAD magazine. | |
| ▲ | spopejoy 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The style reminds me of the old Alien Syndrome arcade game | | | |
| ▲ | InfiniteLoopGuy 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Theme Hospital | | |
| ▲ | pell 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | That was my first thought too. I replayed it recently. Still a great game. |
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| ▲ | AmazingTurtle 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Thats fun. I like it. Try clicking on naruto :) https://floor796.com/#t2l4,780,732 |
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| ▲ | toledocavani 20 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Or on Chuck Norris: https://floor796.com/#t3l1,134,205 | | | |
| ▲ | _kush 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | So fun! Are there any other easter eggs like this? I've been clicking everywhere and didn't find any | | |
| ▲ | wartijn_ 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | From the FAQ in the "about" section of the website: - You can try to find Wally (Waldo), as in the well-known game Where's Wally. He is partially visible, but if you click on him, he will appear in full and wave at you. - Quest #1 - Mafia Treasures. To start the quest, go to the room where the Mafia is holding the annual meeting and click on the suitcase. - Quest #2 - Subspace Tuner: To start this quest, click on the large advertising screen that says 'Bad Signal' next to the pirate ship. - Payphone - you can call different subscribers on the 796th floor. Subscriber numbers are constantly being added and can be found in various places on the floor. - In the Police Station click on the big screen to see the project statistics: current online, visits by country, number on interactions with all elements on the floor, etc. - One of the arcade machines has a real game - Racer796. - In the park zone there is Change My Mind guy. Click on him to add your own phrase to the rotation. - You can compose a 10-second melody and add it to rotation by clicking on the guy in the hospital with the pink synthesizer. - You can draw small pixel animation and add it to rotation by clicking on the Fun Drawing Screen near the Police Station. - Click on the Chunk Norris in the park zone. - Click on the JAWS 19 ad screen in the block with Back to the Future references. - Click on Naruto near the pirate ship. - There is Free Ads Board next to the pirate ship. You can draw your own advertising screen and specify which URL it links to. - There are also many small interactive elements on the floor, clicking on which will show an additional picture, play a sound or cause some action to occur. | |
| ▲ | timenotwasted 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The Jaws one is fun too, only reason I found it is because it says click beneath it, https://floor796.com/#b3l3,84,789 | |
| ▲ | orbital-decay 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Fight Club rules poster: https://floor796.com/#t3r3,776,193 |
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| ▲ | marcellus23 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This reminds me a lot of the 2000s internet that I grew up on. This was the kind of thing I used to find using StumbleUpon. |
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| ▲ | vjay15 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The entire page was amazing, but holy shit that art in the middle that shows how the current system works where kids are sent to school to study and then they graduate, get crushed into becoming mere tools instead of the human beings we are meant to be. |
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| ▲ | avidiax 16 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | https://floor796.com/#t4r2,799,120 | |
| ▲ | p2detar 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I think it is “Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall” reference. edit: Ha! Actually one can double-click on objects and get more info about their origin. | | |
| ▲ | lossyalgo 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | Single-clicking is sufficient :) Also there are a lot of special clickable actions (mentioned in the FAQ > About section, or just keep clicking until you find something, there are 20+ special actions). |
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| ▲ | ForceBru 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Is it just me or is the phrase "human beings" used more often than simply "humans"? I've just started to notice this: the next word after "human" is very often "beings". Whenever someone wants to emphasize our humanity (as opposed, say, to a horse's horseness), they almost always say "human _beings_" instead of "humans". Somehow "human beings" seems to emphasize the "human spirit/soul". | | |
| ▲ | Jakob 19 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes. There are lots around; whenever the original word becomes too short for the importance people want to give it. Tuna fish, chai tea, Enter the room -> enter “into” the room, French: hui (today) -> aujourd’hui (day of today) Keyword: pleonasm | | |
| ▲ | umanwizard 19 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'm sure I've even heard French people say "au jour d'aujourd'hui" | | |
| ▲ | teapot7 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'm pretty sure I've seen that one in a list, by a French person, of things they wish other people wouldn't say! |
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| ▲ | PeterHolzwarth 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Prior discussions here on HN noted this writeup on how some of it works (in Russian): https://habr.com/ru/companies/floor796/articles/673318/ |
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| ▲ | BargirPezza 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Amazing, real dedication and it looks so good! Have spent some time just wandering around and clicking on different characters I don't recognize.
So fun |
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| ▲ | c-hendricks 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Not often you see Lexx references: https://floor796.com/#t0l2,597,381 |
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| ▲ | burnt-resistor 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Kai strikes again. That series was hilarious to my undergrad self. I think I caught it on Comedy Central or the Sci-Fi Channel (SyFy) junior year. | |
| ▲ | lexx 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Indeed |
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| ▲ | stavros 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I got inspired by this the other day and made something related, though user-drawable: https://pine.town Obviously nowhere near as good as Floor796, but if you like pixel art, maybe you'll like my weekend hack. |
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| ▲ | tux1968 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Thanks for sharing this one. There's so many brilliant and funny little vignettes in this piece. I'm amazed at what some people are able to do, so far outside anything I could dream about creating. |
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| ▲ | scrollop 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Would be interesting to give all the NPC AI, then control one and see how everything interacts, or get dropped into this in first person and interact with everything/everyone powered by AI. |
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| ▲ | wowczarek 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I giggled at Monkey Island and then I saw the tentacle... but from Half Life. This is a masterpiece and it keeps on giving. |
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| ▲ | eightturn 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| sites like this make the internet a better place. |
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| ▲ | hermitcrab an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Can we please have a room where Jake Paul and Tate are getting humbled in a boxing ring for all eternity. |
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| ▲ | backtogeek 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This sort of thing gives me a nice hit of nostalgia. I am pleased things like this continue to exist on the tinterweb. |
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| ▲ | alexconrad 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Goofy has a sound clip when you click on it. Are there other ones with sound? |
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| ▲ | yieldcrv 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| How fast this loads is a lost art |
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| ▲ | Freak_NL 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There is now a neon add for some weird place called 'Hacker News'; right between the ones for Dunder Mifflin and Weyland Yutani Corp, over by the Catbus, behind that new huge pirate ship, but if you hit the Black Mesa ad you've gone too far. |
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| ▲ | cantalopes 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Well, there goes my carrier data plan |
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| ▲ | Peteragain 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I think it will absorb at least as many hours as doom scrolling, and be much better for me. |
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| ▲ | jupin 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I wish I could show my kid this incredible mega gif. But it's NSFW ;D |
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| ▲ | cyode 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Mega gif indeed. Two relevant excerpts found in the about page (it's a gif but not a gif): > Why 796? > The name of the project has a small code: 7, 9 and 6 are the ordinal numbers of the letters in the English alphabet for the word GIF. This project is essentially one big gif, a mega gif, so all the action takes place on the 796th (GIF) floor of the space station :) > How does animation rendering work? In order to maintain pixel clarity and still have good compression, it was necessary to create own video format. The entire animation is divided into sections, and each section is packed into this special format. The browser then loads the desired section and renders it in a separate thread into the common canvas. | |
| ▲ | debo_ 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Hopefully your kids aren't working yet, so it's fair game! | | |
| ▲ | latexr an hour ago | parent [-] | | Maybe their kid is called William and they meant it’s Not Safe for Will. |
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| ▲ | kylecazar 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Haven't found Waldo yet Edit: I absolutely did find Waldo! That was fun. |
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| ▲ | crasshacker 17 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Is Waldo really there? Because I've looked everywhere, and at this point I'm a bit concerned that my eyes are going to give out before I'm able to find him. That guy sure is a wily fella. | | | |
| ▲ | spopejoy 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Here's a fun one: find AE3803 |
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| ▲ | metalman an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| the guy must have started consuming media in the womb and has an amazing ability to capture iconic characters and moments with the smallest possible numbers of pixles, the proof of that is bieng able to identify many familiar characters, but the ones from different cultures register as extras and are devoid of personality, pattern recognition doing it's thing effortlessly.
It's very much of our time, and speaks to the need for drama and absurdity, and also the role that AI is bieng pushed to fill, while showing that for true iconic imagery , human biengs still have the edge. |
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| ▲ | signorovitch 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Reminds me of xkcd's "Click & Drag" https://xkcd.com/1110/ |
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| ▲ | utopcell 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If you're curious: the name alludes to this being the 796th floor of a space station. |
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| ▲ | cod1r 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is great and I love it. Very polished work. |
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| ▲ | chiantiM 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| OMG... stunning maximalism |
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| ▲ | fwip 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35510067 |
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| ▲ | sph 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is incredible! I bet there's Waldo hidden somewhere... good luck! |
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| ▲ | cmg 20 hours ago | parent [-] | | From the FAQ: > You can try to find Wally (Waldo), as in the well-known game Where's Wally. He is partially visible, but if you click on him, he will appear in full and wave at you. |
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| ▲ | rishabhaiover 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I love the fact that Steven Seagal made it. |
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| ▲ | Kiboneu 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| this is where i’d like to chill when they wake me up from the simulation. |
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| ▲ | paulbjensen 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is a work of art. Thank you for sharing. |
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| ▲ | arrty88 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| So cool. Nice to see Walt and Jesse cooking |
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| ▲ | jnellis 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Nice, this just crashed my entire desktop. |
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| ▲ | throawayonthe 19 hours ago | parent [-] | | impressive, what's your desktop? | | |
| ▲ | jnellis 19 hours ago | parent [-] | | just win10 and firefox. It wanted to run workers in firefox, locked up firefox, then somehow taskmanager was locked up and things went downhill from there. | | |
| ▲ | justsomehnguy 19 hours ago | parent [-] | | Works for me on Win 10, Win 11, Firefox, DDG. Probably somet=ing gone very wrong with the video drivers. |
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| ▲ | eightturn 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| there's even a HN img reference |
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| ▲ | dmead 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Is this the same author as goontower? |
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| ▲ | underlipton 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What did they do to Muzzy?! |
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| ▲ | mariopt 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The artwork looks amazing, is it AI/ComfyUI? |
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| ▲ | xfour 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| What did I just click on? Love the no context drop in with 37 points and no comments. That being said whatever this is… something |
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