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Revision as of 16:51, 31 January 2022

Explanation

Other images

  • After a few days the black lines forming the image came into conflict with the clock, which has a rounded white frame around it. This can be seen in one of the earliest examples here:

Countdown in header text Clock Cover Black Lines.png

  • Later this could cause problems for those only looking at the xkcd page. From frame 97 a new item appeared in the top right corner. This turned out to be a black curve that could resemble a dinosaurs tail. At this moment, frame 121, it is still unclear what it is. But when looked at on xkcd, the clocks rounded white frame intersects with the "tail" making the end curve inwards. This makes it look like an elephants trunk. But this is of course not the case, but an effect of how the clock is overlaid on the image:

Countdown in header text Clock Causes Trunk Appearance.png

  • Also at this time a new development happened after the "plane tail" moved forward it stopped on 2022-01-18 and started moving up (or zooming in). See for instance these two comparison from munvoseli's page showing the difference from the 8 pictures before today, and then after three out today:

Countdown in header text Compare 40 to 48.png Countdown in header text Compare 48 to 51.png

  • Later a similar change happens, as it changes from zooming out to slowly moving towards the right, although the windows and the door appear to move more in relation to the frame than the rest of the aircraft:

Countdown in header text Compare 85 to 90.png Countdown in header text Compare 95 to 90.png

  • From frame 124 to 125 one of the largest changes occurred between images so far. A very large jump bringing two new things into view, the landing wheel and possibly a leg if it is dinosaur on top of the plane;

Countdown in header text Compare 124 to 125.png

  • The final image appeared in frame 134, and it did not change when frame 135 came up. That was the active frame when there was one hour left of the countdown:
  • Countdown in header text One hour left.png