I built a website where people can "tattoo" the Earth, one pixel at a time

Remix clone Hacker News

new | show | ask | jobs Github

▲

I built a website where people can "tattoo" the Earth, one pixel at a time(earth.tattoo)

4 points by earth-tattoo 10 hours ago | 3 comments

▲

cadmeup 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Cool idea. So you only draw on a small little part, how does that work?

▲

earth-tattoo 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, so basically the earth is divided into almost 510 million "blocks" or "tiles". You can "claim" one block every hour. Or you can pay to buy one block for $1.

	▲	earth-tattoo 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh and by the way, each tile is 16x16 pixels