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 ;Turtle graphics
-So these are instructions for a turtle graphics program. The audio is drawn from https://xkcd.com/2601/radio.mp3, a 9 hour 7 minute 12 second long audio file It's generated by feeding turtle code into a text-to-speech program, but idk which language or which program. If you can convert the speech back to text, somehow without ruining the formatting (or just do a lot of editing with regex until it looks right), you could feed it into a turtle graphics program and get the resulting drawing.
+So these are instructions for a turtle graphics program. The audio is drawn from https://xkcd.com/2601/radio.mp3, a 9 hour 7 minute 12 second long audio file It's generated by feeding turtle code into a text-to-speech program, but idk which language or which program. If you can convert the speech back to text, somehow without ruining the formatting (or just do a lot of editing with regex until it looks right), you could feed it into a turtle graphics program and get the resulting drawing. I don't know what the current image on this page is. Is that the drawing you get by following these instructions? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.100.4|172.70.100.4]] 20:58, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 :If you're not familiar with Turtle and Logo, look at this [[https://www.tutorialspoint.com/logo/logo_quick_guide.htm|quick guide]]. The short version is that these commands move a little cursor, called a turtle, which draws a line as it moves and turns. At this time, contributors have applied a few different computer transcriptions to the entire audio. There are quotes about turtles from a variety of sources intermixed with Logo code. It is expected that some correction to the code is needed, such as adding parenthesis that are not spoken in the audio. Standard Logo commands found in the audio are: PENUP, PENDOWN, SETHEADING (N) (N), SETXY (N) (N), and FORWARD (N). Some custom functions are defined, including DIST (N) (N) (N) (N), LERP (N) (N) (N), MIX (N) (N), CUBIC (N) (N) (N) (N), and SQUARE (N) (N). The next steps are to test the transcripts of these custom functions in a Logo interpreter, at which point we can begin drawing the picture. [[User:Mannerisky|Mannerisky]] ([[User talk:Mannerisky|talk]]) 02:45, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
 : The picture indeed will be Bob Ross. The first hour of radio has him saying, "A happy little tree - holding up a happy little world." We can coordinate transcribing this code at [https://github.com/theinternetftw/xkcd2601 GitHub Repository]. Credit for this progress goes to the GitHub owner. [[User:Mannerisky|Mannerisky]] ([[User talk:Mannerisky|talk]]) 04:55, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
 : Wait I see now, that is the actual image for the comic. It just gets covered up by the button so I can't see it. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.87|172.70.126.87]] 21:03, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 ::Ah, it looks like someone realized it's actually longer than that. After downloading it, I found it to be 131,329,389 bytes. The Windows Properties viewer claims it is 8h41m08s in length, but that's wrong. It is actually 9h07m06s.  By the way, the code is in the Logo language. He seems to have copied this from a book, but I don't know which one. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.100.4|172.70.100.4]] 21:12, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
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 ::Well is it 2022/04/01 [[Special:Contributions/141.101.77.189|141.101.77.189]] 21:26, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
-Broken Version
+;Broken Version
 I think mine's broken. I don't get it. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.91|172.70.130.91]] 21:29, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 :You press the radio button, it selects it, then you can press it a zillion times in any pattern and all it ever does is blink the entire image. Nothing else ever appears other than the radio button, and there’s never any sound so pressing the speaker in the corner to supposedly turn it on or off is also completely pointless.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.65|172.70.126.65]] 23:31, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
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 It was wonderful watching all of this unfold.  Great work everyone.  I don't have an account here, nor on github, but I thought I'd mention that the makesvg.py uses the ':=' operator which was introduced in python 3.8.  Not all of us have it on our creaky old machines.  Maybe add a comment in the usage at the top of the file?  Or better, refactor the .py?
 -- [[Special:Contributions/172.70.100.4|172.70.100.4]] 14:39, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
 Is there a trick to making it work?  I've tried both Firefox and Chrome.  I hear the narration and can toggle the mute, but it never draws the picture for me.  I have enabled JavaScript and I have disabled Privacy Badger, NoSCript, and uBlock Origin and still no joy.  I did find the final drawing so I've seen the animation via GIF.
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 :: -- [[User:Dtgriscom|Dtgriscom]] ([[User talk:Dtgriscom|talk]]) 12:14, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
-One line in the narrative, "I read in the L.A. Times this morning that 42,000 Mazda cars were recalled because of a spider problem. Really makes you think doesn’t it?" could be refering to https://xkcd.com/2600/, namely "Will I have to start worrying about spiders after Tuesday?"
+One line in the narrative, "I read in the L.A. Times this morning that 42,000 Mazda cars were recalled because of a spider problem. Really makes you think doesn’t it?" could be refering to https://xkcd.com/2600/, namely "Will I have to start worrying about spiders after Tuesday?" [[Special:Contributions/162.158.222.39|162.158.222.39]] 13:55, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
 :No, it actually references a [https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-autos-spiders-mazda-recall-20140407-story.html thing that happened] in 2014, because Mazda's cars are for some reason spider magnets. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.222.157|162.158.222.157]] 06:58, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

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 I don’t have an account, but I wanted to add that if you are subscribed to email updates (by clicking email on the xkcd website) the update reads: “Sadly today's comic is best views on the web” [[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.198|162.158.107.198]]
-== Narrative vs. code ==
+; Narrative vs. code
 There should be some statement that there's code and narrative mixed within the transcript; you can't just hand the whole thing to Logo and expect it to work.

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 :Now that the project is complete, we should add the resulting image on this page (not just a link to github). It'll be what folks are looking for first. And then we can start identifying the many references in the picture and turtle quotes. [[User:Mannerisky|Mannerisky]] ([[User talk:Mannerisky|talk]]) 04:26, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
 ::well, i added the picture. [[User:Lettherebedarklight|youtube.com/watch?v&#61;miLcaqq2Zpk]] ([[User talk:Lettherebedarklight|talk]]) 08:08, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
-: Vacuum decay is the total annihilation of the observable universe, which (in theory, depending on details we don't yet know) could happen at any point and at any time and would expand at the speed of light to "unmake" any space it reaches.  Since it's limited to the speed of light, I guess it wouldn't affect regions of the universe that are receding faster than that.  So, it's a bit of irony contrasting the happy picture.  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum_decay . [[Special:Contributions/172.70.110.65|172.70.110.65]] 14:13, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
+: Vacuum decay is the total annihilation of the observable universe, which (in theory, depending on details we don't yet know) could happen at any point and at any time and would expand at the speed of light to clobber any space it reaches.  Since it's limited to the speed of light, I guess it wouldn't affect regions of the universe that are receding faster than that.  So, it's a bit of irony contrasting the happy picture.  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum_decay .  For an even better explanation, try Katie Mack's excellent book, https://www.amazon.com/End-Everything-Astrophysically-Speaking/dp/198210354X [[Special:Contributions/172.70.110.65|172.70.110.65]] 14:13, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 It was wonderful watching all of this unfold.  Great work everyone.  I don't have an account here, nor on github, but I thought I'd mention that the makesvg.py uses the ':=' operator which was introduced in python 3.8.  Not all of us have it on our creaky old machines.  Maybe add a comment in the usage at the top of the file?  Or better, refactor the .py?

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 :Now that the project is complete, we should add the resulting image on this page (not just a link to github). It'll be what folks are looking for first. And then we can start identifying the many references in the picture and turtle quotes. [[User:Mannerisky|Mannerisky]] ([[User talk:Mannerisky|talk]]) 04:26, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
 ::well, i added the picture. [[User:Lettherebedarklight|youtube.com/watch?v&#61;miLcaqq2Zpk]] ([[User talk:Lettherebedarklight|talk]]) 08:08, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
-: Vacuum decay is the total annihilation of the observable universe, which (in theory, depending on details we don't yet know) could happen at any point and at any time and would expand at the speed of light to clobber any space it reaches.  Since it's limited to the speed of light, I guess it wouldn't affect regions of the universe that are receding faster than that.  So, it's a bit of irony contrasting the happy picture.  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum_decay .  For an even better explanation, try Katie Mack's excellent book, https://www.amazon.com/End-Everything-Astrophysically-Speaking/dp/198210354X [[Special:Contributions/172.70.110.65|172.70.110.65]] 14:13, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
+: Vacuum decay is the total annihilation of the observable universe, which (in theory, depending on details we don't yet know) could happen at any point and at any time and would expand at the speed of light to "unmake" any space it reaches.  Since it's limited to the speed of light, I guess it wouldn't affect regions of the universe that are receding faster than that.  So, it's a bit of irony contrasting the happy picture.  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum_decay . [[Special:Contributions/172.70.110.65|172.70.110.65]] 14:13, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 It was wonderful watching all of this unfold.  Great work everyone.  I don't have an account here, nor on github, but I thought I'd mention that the makesvg.py uses the ':=' operator which was introduced in python 3.8.  Not all of us have it on our creaky old machines.  Maybe add a comment in the usage at the top of the file?  Or better, refactor the .py?

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 :Now that the project is complete, we should add the resulting image on this page (not just a link to github). It'll be what folks are looking for first. And then we can start identifying the many references in the picture and turtle quotes. [[User:Mannerisky|Mannerisky]] ([[User talk:Mannerisky|talk]]) 04:26, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
 ::well, i added the picture. [[User:Lettherebedarklight|youtube.com/watch?v&#61;miLcaqq2Zpk]] ([[User talk:Lettherebedarklight|talk]]) 08:08, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
-: Vacuum decay is the total annihilation of the observable universe, which (in theory, depending on details we don't yet know) could happen at any point and at any time and would expand at the speed of light to "unmake" any space it reaches.  Since it's limited to the speed of light, I guess it wouldn't affect regions of the universe that are receding faster than that.  So, it's a bit of irony contrasting the happy picture.  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum_decay . [[Special:Contributions/172.70.110.65|172.70.110.65]] 14:13, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
+: Vacuum decay is the total annihilation of the observable universe, which (in theory, depending on details we don't yet know) could happen at any point and at any time and would expand at the speed of light to clobber any space it reaches.  Since it's limited to the speed of light, I guess it wouldn't affect regions of the universe that are receding faster than that.  So, it's a bit of irony contrasting the happy picture.  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum_decay .  For an even better explanation, try Katie Mack's excellent book, https://www.amazon.com/End-Everything-Astrophysically-Speaking/dp/198210354X [[Special:Contributions/172.70.110.65|172.70.110.65]] 14:13, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 It was wonderful watching all of this unfold.  Great work everyone.  I don't have an account here, nor on github, but I thought I'd mention that the makesvg.py uses the ':=' operator which was introduced in python 3.8.  Not all of us have it on our creaky old machines.  Maybe add a comment in the usage at the top of the file?  Or better, refactor the .py?

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