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8-bit Weather

40 points by duck 12y ago

mtmail 12y ago
Reminds me of the weatherpixie.com widgets (a site project, closed in 2010) http://peter.stillhq.com/jasmine/blog/goth-weather-pixie-xmas-tree.jpg http://peter.stillhq.com/jasmine/blog/goth-weather-pixie-xma...
- bradbeattie 12y ago
  Or forcast.io's embed: http://forecast.io/embed/#lat=49.2803&lon=-123.1122&name=Vancouver http://forecast.io/embed/#lat=49.2803&lon=-123.1122&name=Van...
brk 12y ago
It says it is 46 degrees here in Grenada. I can assure you that is a bit off.
- chippy 12y ago
  Centigrade or Fahrenheit? Grenada the country or the first result from yahoo's geocoder (i.e. some street with "grenada" in it's name in a US state) unrelated ... if it is the West Indian country - how is the technology / hacker scene there? I spent early internet working in Dominica (Commonwealth of)
  - brk 12y ago
    Fahrenheit, though 46C would have been way off in the other direction :) And it did seem to recognize my location properly, though I can't verify where the backend actually pulled weather data for. I'm just here for a vacation, but have spent some time exploring. The technology scene seems rather limited overall. I think you could easily find a spot to work from for a month or two. Cost of living is lowish, Internet access does not seem to hard to come by, people are friendly and the island is very safe. But you're not likely to come across a whole lot of other like-minded hackers (IMO).
nilkn 12y ago
This is pretty cool, although I will admit my imagination may have went a bit wild in the few seconds which passed between my reading the title and the page loading. I conjured an image of an 8-bit dynamic animation of weather across the globe.
venaoy 12y ago
In case of curiosity, here are all the possible weather icons :) http://jsfiddle.net/x6w7f44y/ http://jsfiddle.net/x6w7f44y/
patmcguire 12y ago
Reminds me of http://thefuckingweather.com/ http://thefuckingweather.com/
freshyill 12y ago
The antialiased text and raster images are kind of killing the illusion. I feel like they got the look of the guy reasonably 8-bit looking, in sort of a Maniac Mansion way. SVG images probably would have looked a lot better here though.
yason 12y ago
This looks more like 16-bit weather though. 8-bit machines didn't generally have high resolutions (= 1x1 pixels) with that many shades of color. The best had either or. In contrast, the weather guy looks like a PC EGA era illustration.

40 points by duck 12y ago

Reminds me of the weatherpixie.com widgets (a site project, closed in 2010) http://peter.stillhq.com/jasmine/blog/goth-weather-pixie-xmas-tree.jpg http://peter.stillhq.com/jasmine/blog/goth-weather-pixie-xma...

bradbeattie 12y ago
Or forcast.io's embed: http://forecast.io/embed/#lat=49.2803&lon=-123.1122&name=Vancouver http://forecast.io/embed/#lat=49.2803&lon=-123.1122&name=Van...

brk 12y ago

It says it is 46 degrees here in Grenada. I can assure you that is a bit off.

chippy 12y ago
Centigrade or Fahrenheit? Grenada the country or the first result from yahoo's geocoder (i.e. some street with "grenada" in it's name in a US state) unrelated ... if it is the West Indian country - how is the technology / hacker scene there? I spent early internet working in Dominica (Commonwealth of)
- brk 12y ago
  Fahrenheit, though 46C would have been way off in the other direction :) And it did seem to recognize my location properly, though I can't verify where the backend actually pulled weather data for. I'm just here for a vacation, but have spent some time exploring. The technology scene seems rather limited overall. I think you could easily find a spot to work from for a month or two. Cost of living is lowish, Internet access does not seem to hard to come by, people are friendly and the island is very safe. But you're not likely to come across a whole lot of other like-minded hackers (IMO).

nilkn 12y ago

This is pretty cool, although I will admit my imagination may have went a bit wild in the few seconds which passed between my reading the title and the page loading. I conjured an image of an 8-bit dynamic animation of weather across the globe.

venaoy 12y ago

In case of curiosity, here are all the possible weather icons :) http://jsfiddle.net/x6w7f44y/ http://jsfiddle.net/x6w7f44y/

patmcguire 12y ago

Reminds me of http://thefuckingweather.com/ http://thefuckingweather.com/

freshyill 12y ago

The antialiased text and raster images are kind of killing the illusion. I feel like they got the look of the guy reasonably 8-bit looking, in sort of a Maniac Mansion way. SVG images probably would have looked a lot better here though.

yason 12y ago

This looks more like 16-bit weather though. 8-bit machines didn't generally have high resolutions (= 1x1 pixels) with that many shades of color. The best had either or. In contrast, the weather guy looks like a PC EGA era illustration.