Tell us how you would build this in the comments, and be sure to send in your write-up if you manage to build it. People just submit a LOT of projects with them. That will not be going away, again, because we get so many submitted. Instead, give us some good ideas on other categories you would like to see for sorting. We think it looks pretty good, if a bit bubbly. You can see the video of the entire process after the break.
Now that xkcd has infiltrated our interwebs, hearts, and minds, maybe he can put just a tiny bit of effort into learning to draw. Who knew that a silly comic strip could be so influential? Speech synthesis software is nothing new, of course. This tutorial on Festival , a Linux-based text-to-speech software framework, would be a great place to start. By using our website and services, you expressly agree to the placement of our performance, functionality and advertising cookies.
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You should sign up! If you already have a plot generated with Matplotlib, activating xkcd-mode is as simple as calling a method on the pyplot object: matplotlib. This means you're free to copy and share these comics but not to sell them. More details. Archive What If? A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. While they refer to Munroe simply as "OTA" the One True Author , a "newpic" plural: "newpix" is defined as the unit of time that elapses between updates, also known as "outsider minutes.
After more than four months of hourly updates, the journey finally came to an end last week, and the final product is 3, panels long—so long that the Youtube video compiling them above runs more than 40 minutes from start to finish. Even better, Munroe is finally talking about the elaborate backstory behind the minimalistic and seemingly ancient world of "Time," which he reveals was set not in the past, but 11, years in the future.
Every civilization with written records has existed for less than 5, years; it seems optimistic to hope that the current one will last for 10, more," Munroe told WIRED. Although the comic takes place many millennia in the future, its setting is modeled on a geological event that took place more than 5 million years ago, when tectonic activity sealed off the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean, causing the sea to evaporate and leave a basin of dry land two miles below sea level.
In Munroe's comic, the same geologic shifts have reoccured in the distant future, and that's where we find the characters when the comic opens: in the bottom of the desiccated Mediterranean Sea, building castles out of sand.
The comic also teeters on the cusp of another ancient but potentially futuristic occurrence: the moment when the ocean flooded back into the basin and refilled the Mediterranean Sea, a catastrophic event known as the Zanclean flood. Munroe described the deluge as ", times the size of Niagara Falls. Humans most likely helped it along—a Gibraltar Dam is a project that would appeal to engineers anywhere.
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