1663: Garden/Screen-shots

• Here screen-shots and saved images downloaded directly from xkcd (without the lamps) for the interactive comic 1663: Garden can be posted.
  • From the downloads Color maps have been created.
  • There are also Screen-shots of header text which changed due to this comic.
• Try to keep the naming scheme so to always include the following:
  • 1663 garden description.png
  • Include the name above the image link for searching
• Some of these screen-shots are used to illustrate the progress of the user gardens.

Screen-shots

Loading collage:

Lamp screen shot:

Red Lamp screen shot:

Three Lamp screen shot:

aprilfool-2016-xorg:

1663 garden Megan Monolith Animals and more:

1663 garden Fast growing tree - leafless:

1663 garden Fast growing tree - lots of leaves:

• From this garden:
• April 4: 1663 garden tree turtle birdbath

• April 5: 1663 garden Flying birds deer gate with cactus turtles snake etc:
  

• Pruned: 1663 garden Pruned garden with birds deer gate cactus turtles snake gate

• 1663 garden Beret guy and cat and much more:
  
• 1663 garden Four Beret guy two gates and much more:
  

1663 garden Megan with sword, trees octopuses with Cueball bunny ducklings:

1663 garden Octopus garden with Cueball hand up and a black hat octopus:

1663 garden Red plant world with both deer and birdbaths in trees and on gates with pots:

1663 garden Growth towards the light duck and intermediate tree:

1663 garden Flexible grass left bending:

1663 garden Flexible grass Straight:

1663 garden Flexible grass right bending:

1663 garden Mars rovers strange tree multiple tree two deer etc:

1663 garden Cueball hand in deer two rovers office furniture two Cueballs on top:

1663 garden Cueball talks to deer:

1663 garden Cueball talks to deer duck in birdbath:
1663 garden Megan waves a wand and office furniture appears :

Megan waves TWO wands bunnies office Cueball bird ducks:

1663 garden Mandelbrot set and birds, one carrying Megan :

1663 garden Mandelbrot set and birds, TWO carrying Megans:

1663 garden Cueball holding grass and Megan with black hat:

1663 garden Office space with star plant balloon with bird and grass on Cueball:

1663 garden Desert with red light only:

1663 garden Two light on small area nothing outside the light:

1663 garden Yellow plant and Megan world:

1663 garden French theme with monoliths:

1663 garden Different light from below the ground:

1663 garden Yellow light from below the ground:

1663 garden Orange yellow white light a sale sign bendy Typha straight:

1663 garden Orange yellow white light a sale sign bendy Typha left:

1663 garden Orange yellow white light a sale sign bendy Typha right:

1663 garden Orange yellow white light a sale sign bendy Typha under water:

1663 garden Five Beret Guy different cats and bugs in the air:

1663 garden One blue light with six pillars:

1663 garden Three blue light with one pillar and black hat octopus:

1663 garden Intense blue light with no pillars:

1663 garden Standard start with interesting garden none the less:

1663 garden Three colors over everything not very interesting:

1663 garden Three colors more separate Beret Guy in shrubbery and Octopus on office desk:

1663 garden Blue yellow Beret Guy in Birdbath and balloon bird cats Megan holding wavy straw:

1663 garden Almost red and blue snakes and bare trunks:

1663 garden Three lights center only two deer's mixed together :

1663 garden Three lamps two along ground with pillars not in blue world and symmetric gates:

1663 garden Office space with giant wavy balloon left:

1663 garden Office space with giant wavy balloon left:

1663 garden Lamp post poles and mars rover:

1663 garden Flying stuff not birds in orange light:

1663 garden Beehive with both parts and a few bees plus oversized objects:

1663 garden Black haired girls with ponytail on stilts:

1663 garden Office lamp different cactus sale sign bench and more:

1663 garden Stack pyramid on Megan sale sign pot and Ponytail:

1663 garden Owl and flying suacer:

1663 garden Ponytail in garden:

1663 garden Giant planter on pillars and both Cueball and Megan with black hat:

1663 garden Grey garden office desk chair and normal table with pots birds and a cat and now Cueballs:

1663 garden Megan with sword now also flowers:

1663 garden The bugs seem to be gone.PNG:

1663 garden Ponytail and two Cueballs cat pillar and trunk sE:

1663 garden Cueball holds a Turtle in front of Megan looking like a cap on her:

1663 garden Sale sign pillar and deer sC:

1663 garden Sale sign right Megan trunk sF:

1663 garden Store for deer now with pillars:

1663 garden Underground light gives large tub on top of pillar then filled with trees:

1663 garden Wand Megan with bird instead of two wands:

1663 garden Amazon forest:

1663 garden R'lyeh for sale:

1663 garden One light along the ground two mainly just above ground:

1663 garden First light pole with lamp:

1663 garden S shaped empty balloon string left:

1663 garden S shaped empty balloon string up:

1663 garden S shaped empty balloon string right:

1663 garden platform in tree with potted plant:

1663 garden Platform on pillar with trees around:

1663 garden Platform on pillar with stilts:

1663 garden Stilt girl with owl on her head and planter and more:

1663 garden Starting point for recreation of locked garden:

1663 garden Lightning pole with lamp:

1663 garden Purple light with stilt girl in tree and planter with deer:

1663 garden Purple light with stilt girl with duck 1:

1663 garden Purple light with stilt girl with duck 2:

1663 garden Anons mixed garden:

1663 garden Stilt girl with owl on head and tulips:

1663 garden Stilt girl now with both owl and two cats on head:

1663 garden Megan with sword and owl on gate:

1663 garden Monoliths and tree with platform SF:

1663 garden Two stilts girl on gate, bird bath on it with shar and fish and heron in pond:

1663 garden My first linsang cat like creature in SC:

1663 garden Three different linsangs one on a new platform in Megans hand:

1663 garden Two owls in tree two Linsangs for sale and turtle on deer:

1663 garden Beehives base and a toy boat on the lake:

1663 garden Beehives base and a toy boat on the lake right:

1663 garden Beehives base and a toy boat on the lake left:

1663 garden Full beehives base toy boat and jumping fish in the lake:

1663 garden Three colors now with flying birds and wading bird:

1663 garden Shark finn and Beret Guy in same bird bath fish boat heron and more:

1663 garden Armadillo and tall platform on top of pillar:

1663 garden Clear view of desk lamp on double columns:

1663 garden Office space with two herons in lake and huge balloon on long string:

1663 garden French theme with fish boat wading bird and heron in lake:

1663 garden Grey garden with 12 Cueballs 6 of each type on tables:

1663 garden Garden underground now with desk lamps and two black hat octopusses:

1663 garden Purple garden with two fish jumping towards each other:

1663 garden Purple garden with Heron:

1663 garden Purple garden with wading bird:

1663 garden with heron deer in tree Megan and Beret Guy:

1663 garden Megan with lots of stuff on platforms:

1663 garden Megan with lots of stuff on platforms selected:

1663 garden Megan with platforms and linsangs pruned:

1663 garden Armadillo on platform and two bunnies mating in a tree:

1663 garden Two small trees on one small platform in Cueballs hand:

1663 garden tree on small platform in Cueballs hand partly pruned and selected:

1663 garden platform in Cueballs hand pruned from tree:

1663 garden Platform on a deer 1:

1663 garden Platform on a deer 2:

1663 garden Crazy cat peoples garden:

1663 garden Flying fish in the air far from water:

1663 garden SC two towers:

• Examples with bird risers, also shown with selected bird riser roots, in debug and in debug mode with count in the console mode:

1663 garden Color 13_2 5d debug bird risers:

1663 garden Color 13_2 5d debug with count:

1663 garden Color 13 5d debug with count:

1663 garden 14 Between orange and orange red 15d selected bird riser root:

1663 garden 14 Between orange and orange red 15d selected bird riser root Megan:

1663 garden SF final:

1663 garden SF final selected:

1663 garden SF final debug:

1663 garden SF final debug drawing:

• Final gardens from Kynde:

1663 garden Two linsang towers:

1663 garden Two owls and two linsangs on platforms Final:

1663 garden Two platform cactus linsang tower and cairn Final:

1663 garden Cueball with linsang and pots on platforms final:

1663 garden Megan wizard with bunny and cat Final:

1663 garden Heart flowers galore:

1663 garden Original garden recreated no success:

1663 garden Platforms:

Blitz Girls amazing gardens

1663 garden Blitz Girls lamp posts and flowers garden:

1663 garden Blitz Girls rose garden:

1663 garden Blitz Girls UFO taking Megan garden:

1663 garden Blitz Girls Armadillo tower:

After pruning, a thirsty flying Megan drinks from a birdbath:

1663 garden Blitz Girls Kissing Megans in air:

1663 garden Blitz Girls The birds garden with Megan witch top left:

1663 garden Blitz Girls strong Megan garden:

1663 garden Blitz Girls UFO and birds garden:

Experiments

One lamp one color

• One lamp is used and it is lifted so high above the original starting point that the color dot can just be seen in the image for documentation.
• On the first day of this experiment (2016-04-07) 9 gardens were started, one after each-other, using the 9 color settings shown in the first image of the Color scale below
• On the second day (2016-04-08), 8 more gardens were started using the settings indicated in the second image below, between the nine dots from the original 9 garden, for a total of 17 different settings.
  • It is very difficult to set this precisely by hand, so the settings are not as precise for any of the gardens as indicated in the image. Except of course for the starting color and the two extremes.
• The garden links are both in the Experimental gardens and on the color names here below:
  • The first image is to document the color setting.
  • The gardens will not be changed any more.
  • But the development have been followed and been documented with more images here below for at least more than one week (as of today 2016-04-16, nine and eight days respectively.)
    • Some gardens seemed to saturate and not produce any new growth rather quickly. (For instance Red and Orange red)
    • But some of these suddenly sprang back to life, (For instance Orange 1 and Orange 2 that suddenly sprouted birds and flying Megans, both on day 6.)

Color scale

• Here are the original nine colors shown on one lamp:

• Here are the 17 used colors indicated with numbers from 1-17:

• Below the colors will each have a section using the numbers from this image and the color used for the original nine settings, so there will be two of each of these except the last red.
• The second of each colors will beneath in the section be labeled with a between the two colors on the scale.

Color 1 Blue

Blue:

• Nothing had happened the first 12 hours then finally two hours later something occurred (an octopus) which is almost more strange since this means the garden is not "dead", which could have explained the waiting time. And then also Cueball after four hour more.

Color 2 Blue

Between blue and light blue:

Color 3 Light blue

Light blue:

Color 4 Light blue

Between light blue and Blue White:

Color 5 Blue white

Blue white:

Color 6 Blue white

Between Blue White and White:

Color 7 White

White:

Color 8 White

Between White and Light yellow:

Color 9 Light yellow

Light yellow starting color:

Color 10 Light yellow

Between Light yellow and yellow:

Color 11 Yellow

Yellow:

Color 12 Yellow

Between yellow and orange:

Color 13 Orange

Orange:

Color 14 Orange

Between orange and orange red:

Color 15 Orange red

Orange red:

Color 16 Orange red

Between orange red and red:

Color 17 Red

Red:

Second experiment

Two weeks after the release of the comic, as second run of one color gardens was started. These gardens can be found at he bottom of the table of locked gardens. The growth development had slowed considerably, and not as many screen shots were needed to follow progress. Here below are at least one screen shot of a garden after eight days (where the first experiment also had it's last batch of images) for each of the 17 colors. Two gardens were created for each color, and the color setting was precisely set to those in the color scale shown above in this section. But only one will be shown if there is nothing new in the least developed garden.

Color 1 Blue

Color 2 Blue

Color 3 Light blue

Color 4 Light blue

Color 5 Blue white

Color 6 Blue white

Color 7 White

Color 8 White

Color 9 Light yellow

Color 10 Light yellow

Color 11 Yellow

Color 12 Yellow

Color 13 Orange

Color 14 Orange

Color 15 Orange red

Color 16 Orange red

Color 17 Red

Growth speed vs blue light

• The one color blue garden (from the above experiment) grew very little compared to other gardens and previous blue gardens.
  • The theory was that some gardens seem to grow only few items.
  • Could it be distance?
• To test this these six gardens below were created right after each other.
  • Only pure blue light to make sure the light is the same
  • But with one, two or three lamps just covering everything, so the one lamp is much higher up than the three lamp version.
  • Two of each type is made to see how much different progress will be.
• The result was surprising but was correlated to what was seen with the one color blue:
  • Almost no growth appears anymore under pure blue light!
  • Octopuses seems to only grow around the lake
  • Only few Cueballs.
• From experiments with this color nothing can thus be said about distance.
  • But the ongoing development of what the gardens produce has never been clearer.
  • There may be new items all the time, but this seems to be on behalf of other items that grows differently although no new items appeared not even the columns that was seen after some days during the first week.
• Below are the six gardens with a screen shot from two days after creation.
  • Compare this with the one color blue garden above, and these blue light gardens from the first few days:
    • Octopus garden with black hat.
    • One blue light with pillars.
    • Three blue light with pillar and black hat.
    • Intense blue light.

Growth speed one blue - 1:

Growth speed one blue - 2:

Growth speed two blue - 1:

Growth speed two blue - 2:

Growth speed three blue - 1:

Growth speed three blue - 2:

Saved image from xkcd

Deer and tall gate with lamps deleted:

Cueball on top of platform with turtles cacti and offices‎, with lamp cones:

Color maps

• These two images is collected from images using different colored light and then saving image in the game.
  • This leaves the black (and here nothing was allowed to grow), and then only the light cones.
  • What is white background is not rendered white. So by viewing it in a viewer with black background the images as shown below appear with only the colors left, and they are much more vivid.
• The first image is made from one lamp moving in 8 steps from red to blue giving 9 different colors.
  • They are all clearly different, which is not so easily seen on all screens/browsers.
  • There may be a smooth transition, but trying to distinguish more than these nine colors becomes very difficult.
• The second image overlaps three different colors so there is an overlap in the center of three colors.
  • The top row only uses the three basic colors, i.e. the two at each side red, blue and the starting color of light yellow straight up. If there where only these three colors there would be only 6 ways to arrange them, and only a few distinct.
    • But if there are nine colors there are more than 500 ways to mix them, although again half of these would be mirror type.
  • The other six images mixes with some or all colors taken from the other six positions used in the first, and as per the above this is only a small mix of possible combinations.

1663 garden Single colors:

1663 garden Three colors:

Screen-shots of header text

• Here images of the changing messages above in the header text before, at, and after release will be posted:

Commercial header text before April 1st problems:

April 1st comic is currently experiencing technical difficulties:

Calendar systems in which Saturday is April 1st:

Delayed until Sunday night:

At point of release:

Protip and url hint:

Note if seeing today's comic:

Back to pro tips only after Friday comic:

Still pro tip on Friday 22nd comic:

Back to normal text after Friday 22nd comic: