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Star Wars crawl in CSS

2013-09-16 18:20:01.862457+00 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

Tim Pietrusky has re-made the Star Wars opening crawl using CSS to style HTML.

  1. Holy crap. At the time this was an amazing accomplishment because it involved a camera on rails and and a motion control rig and ...
  2. Wow, is this a fantastic visualization of pixel crawl and how we really need sub-pixel accuracy and anti-aliasing, or way finer displays, when doing imaging.
  3. Fuck you CSS and JavaScript. HTML version 1 (well, okay, maybe 3) forever.

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#Comment Re: made: 2013-09-16 20:47:46.130733+00 by: ebradway

#2: Not sure what you are complaining about. Looks great on my machine... a Retina MacBook...

#Comment Re: made: 2013-09-16 22:09:17.327894+00 by: Dan Lyke

Yep, "way finer displays". probably also sub-pixel anti-alising, too, the work machine is not optimized for display...