Over on Hacker News, the always fantastic community took to coding and developed a few different ways to navigate the comic. If you’re into high-res PDFs, the Internet has you covered.
#Click and drag download
If you want to navigate Click and Drag at a later time without the Internet available, check out every individual image available for download here, or you can grab a torrent of it all directly from here.
Hey, if you don’t like the previous map, you can always try this one. Though the full-size result of the scrape is too small to make out the finer details, such as the words, it can be used as a handy tool to know where things are in the comic, so you can then go back to the original Click and Drag and know exactly what to click and in which direction to drag. Over on WickedGlitch, the entire panel has been scraped and shoved into one image. In this image, you can treat the comic like Google Street View, zooming in and out until the actual bits and pieces of the comic are indecipherable. That’s whole seasons of television shows. They also point out that the grayscale image alone is 12.3 gigabytes in size.
#Click and drag full
ComicMix points out that the full comic would fit on 4,212 iPad screens arranged in an 81 x 52 grid. It measures in at 165,888 x 79,872 pixels, or 1.3 terapixels, which is a term you most likely don’t come across very often. It’s probably safe to assume that the comic is the largest webcomic to date in terms of size. We have some pretty interesting numbers regarding the xkcd comic.
Head on past the break for some stellar info, and maybe set aside some time later today to explore the enormous comic. There are many impressive facets about “Click and Drag,” such as the panel measuring in at 1.3 terapixels, as well as small community of coders creating applets to help readers better navigate the behemoth. However, when you perform the comic’s titular action, click and drag, the larger, bottom panels seems to sprawl on forever in various directions, revealing amusing quips, sad stories, and what is essentially an entire world. If you’re a regular reader of the brilliant xkcd, then you probably got lost in today’s comic, “ Click and Drag.” It features three short panels sitting above a seemingly larger, finite panel.
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