Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope ON ONE WEB PAGE
19Martin Panchaud, an illustrator and graphic novelist from Switzerland, has adapted the whole entire Episode IV into a single web page that you simply scroll through, as though you were looking at an infographic of epic proportions.
By his calculations, the story is one continuous image that measures 123 meters long (403.5ft for you non metricians).
This sure tickled MY fancy… My only wish would be for a separate legend of who is who, because I have a hard time remembering which dot shape represents each person/character-type/species.
Give it a looksee and let me know what your favourite part is! I like it when Han shoots first 
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I need more rams
This is awesome!
I have a cardiologist appt in less than 7 hours tho and really should sleep some…
To sleep… or to continue scrolling? That is the question!
That’s crazy, but highly confusing with the dots.
@jbartus Right? I would love a legend, or even better, mouseovers
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@curtise mouseovers would require a more involved implementation where each dot is an individual entity, this guy put in a whole bunch of big panels
@jbartus Actually, it wouldn’t be quite that complex - he would just need to use html imagemaps. I did it once on my old choir website where there was a picture of all the choristers and you could hover over each one and it would show their name in an alttext box.
Obviously it would still be a heck of a lot of work, but not quite as bad as having to have each dot be a separate file.
@curtise I never said it had to be an individual image, just an individual entity (each box on a map would fall into this category). Yes, he could use a map but to map every single dot would be quite time intensive, not to mention I’m not entirely sure what the implications on page render for an image map are, never mind dozens of highly complex ones
Holy shit, awesome.
Amazing, I love it!
Guesses on how long it takes for a Disney lawyer to ‘force’ him to take it down?
@cinoclav
HOPEfully more than 4. Not sure on the interval though.
@cinoclav Thanks for the reminder that I should download before that happens.
@cinoclav Damn. So many pieces.
@joelmw
Wanna share?
@FroodyFrog How exactly? I mean, I’m willing; just not sure I fully understand. I could repost them, but for now they’re all out there as accessible as I can make them (at least easily). I just have a directory with 158 of individual tiles like so. They downloaded pretty quick.
I used this to get them all (within Chrome): Image Downloader
@joelmw @FroodyFrog you can usually pull all the images on a site down pretty easily just by saving the page to your PC, most browsers will download related assets as well and put them in a folder in the same location as the HTML file. No add-ons required
@jbartus I thought about doing it that way, and in one sense it would have been simpler, but I like that I found the extension that does just that one thing.
“If these new droids do work ut” indeed
@DrunkCat Did you miss the bit where he is from Switzerland
? I also like how he calls them all ‘droide’ and ‘humain’ hehe
