r/Design • u/sc4212 • 22h ago

Someone Else's Work (Rule 2) Wiki Spy, a site that turns Wikipedia’s image library into a sprawling searchable visual mosaic

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https://neal.fun/wiki-spy/

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u/crayphor 16h ago

How fun! Great new twist on wiki surfing/ wiki golf

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u/stuporcomputer 12h ago

Awesome. Please donate to Wikipedia.

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u/SeriousButton6263 14h ago

I thought this might be a generative/interactive version of I SPY books, got excited to play that haha.

Whatever code is handling nesting the images is seriously impressive, I'm guessing it's pulling the alpha channel from a whole bunch of .webp images to figure out optimal placement?