Hi-rez Tetris after two weeks

Anne sez, "I quickly got bored with the hi-res Tetris game profiled by BB here. So I left it running in a window and forgot about it, until the next morning, when the screen was only filled by a fraction. I've managed to leave it going for almost 2 weeks now, and my friend Dave made a tribute to it. He will continue to post images (and accompanying ungrammatical text in always-apropos Comic Sans) as the screen slowly fills."

Tetris HD (Thanks, Anne!)

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High-resolution Tetris - Boing Boing

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I â™¥ Tetris
bp

The d-bags over at in4mador have been having a little bit of the similar types of fun:

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=rlf0qo&s=5
Keeper of the Lantern

The mathematics of that must be interesting. I noticed vast Tetris stalagmites (or is it -tites) that seem stable.
Ratdog

@VETTEKAAS

I think we were having a collective dream.
neurolux

I got hooked on this for about 20 minutes just to see what happens when I clear one line. As it turns out, nothing special. But I got a sweet little sense of accomplishment.
n

#3 Anonymous — I had the exact same thought, but couldn’t remember the name — thanks for reminding me!!!
Sork

Anne clicked the mail with a trembling finger. “Your pregnancy report” it said. But she hadn’t done any test, or had she, she thought. No it was just another breast enlargement ad. She sighed of relief. She’d thought that her last date was somewhat distant and cold but regretted taking him home for the night. There was just something odd about him. That he was too efficient in bed and cold, almost mechanical. He also seemed to know her a little too well although they only met last week. This next date she’d be better prepared. First off she’d choose a better restaurant this time, something italian and classy like Vetri or Osteria. And this time she’d have that Turing test ready for him. Anne felt from what she knew that he’d fail it easily, but anyway this spam mail haunted her. -Just in case, the thought, let’s read up on this “back door action”, as her brother used to call it. At least it wouldn’t knock her up, right? She put her Colt .45 in her purse and updated her Facebook status. -Now I have a date with destiny, she said loud to herself as she opened the door.

To be continued…
pepsi_max2k

I did this in under an hour, just hold down the enter key :oP Thought it was pretty cool, was gonna post a screeny but was bored of it by that point.
Anonymous

I love the titles on the other tabs opened in the browser depicted in picture #4. Hilarious
Anonymous

I just want to know more about those Google searches and interesting looking browser tabs… Classic Apple II games? Vibrant yoga students? There’s an anal sex entry on Wikipedia?!
n

33 sork that was AWESOME omg omg omg omg
n

Wait where did the Colt .45 come from? i dnt’ remember having that in my tabs.
brianwolf

Anyone else notice the website tabs on 4?
Sork

I’m reading between the tabs there but its pretty obvious.
Nur

There’s a game available on Linux called “Bastard Tetris” where the game deliberately gives you the least suitable tile. That means that if you leave a 4×1 vertical gap in 4 otherwise complete rows you’ll never, ever get the long skinny tile and instead you’ll get a whole lot of 2×2 squares.

I would really like to see the makers of HD tetris and Bastard Tetris get together to make a frustrating and infinitely long game.

http://fph.altervista.org/prog/bastet.shtml
Anonymous

A screensaver that did this at severl pieces a second would be pretty cool.
Kyle Malashewski

i hereby dub this the tetris reef.
Anonymous

@19 Given the amount of time it takes to get one line, I’m not sure you could tell the difference if this was running with a bastard mode or not.

@29 if you think that wikipedia article is interesting, look at pearl necklace, but warning, it’s probably as nsfw as wikipedia can be.
relain

@11 DLA is cool eh?

For bonus points, i suppose one should calculate the expected fractal dimension given that we’re building our fractal from tetriminos with known distributions you should be able to figure out quite a lot…

Anyone good at this?
LOSERKID

thats kol
Anonymous

The look of the result reminds me of those old “Magic Crystal” things from the 1970′s where you’d fill a fish bowl with water, pour in a bottle of solution, then drop in these little colored pieces of plasticy-wax. Over the course of a week or two, the pieces would grow into colorful stalagmites.
David

Someone already did that, and it didn’t take them two weeks to do it. Imagine all the time wasted because you couldn’t be bothered to read the staggering 11 comments on the original Offworld post when you linked to it before – and again today.

http://www.offworld.com/2009/03/tiny-tetris-in-a-whole-wide-we.html#comment-433891

Just a thought, tell Anne to depress the enter or space button on her keyboard (enter drops them faster).
Saya

Would make a cool looking t-shirt…
Rob Beschizza

David, go outside and play.
n

YAY I LOVE THESE COMMENTS

ABOUT HALF OF YOU GET IT, I LOVE YOU
Anonymous

And in picture 5 we’re all being Rick-Rolled
kaini

looks like cellular automata.
Anonymous

use something to hold the space bar down and it goes a bit faster. The thing is just nuts.
Anonymous

Here is a cool trick to speedup this process: Hold down the space bar and then click to a different screen(or tab), you can let go of the space bar. Click back and the site thinks the space bar is still held down dropping all the pieces at full speed. This also works for left and right arrow but, you cannot use a combination.
gulo gulo

top screenshot, third tab from the left…anne has a bun in the oven?
skatanic

I did this one awhile back. I used the space bar to speed up the process a bit, but otherwise completely random.
jere7my

Hey, what’s with the 8×1 dark gray pieces? Are those a part of the original Tetris? (There’s one visible near the upper left of the screenshot, below a light blue right-dogleg.)

Keeper: you get those interesting branching structures because small overhangs tend to develop into big ones. Once a branch has developed a slightly wider tip, that tip, because it presents a bigger target, is slightly more likely to catch another piece. Each new piece it catches is likely to make the branch a little wider, so the process reinforces itself. Conversely, once a lesser branch is entirely in a big branch’s shadow, it can no longer grow at all, because the big branch catches everything that might fall on it.
El Stinko

David, I think you missed the point.
vettekaas

I had a dream about this last night. I was among the falling Tetris pieces.
Anonymous

Just a note… on one pics one of the tabs says “Anal Sex – wiki” It’s for your next book or for a hot night? :D

peace & love
jere7my

It does indeed, Kaini! This is an example of dendritic growth, which is frequently simulated using cellular automata. This process is more akin to diffusion-limited aggregation, but the end result is very similar to those generated by CA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion-limited_aggregation
IPFREELY

I’ve been doing this at work, the slow way, because I don’t always catch 100% of the comments (sorry) or articles (my bad), but I’m making a TF2 map out of the individual screenshots that I take after work. Should be done sometime by the next character update or two… too much paper crafting in the mean time, so the map will wait… unless someone else would like to build it, then go ahead… I’ll just try to do a great job when I get my turn.
JoshP

@saya
I had the same thought, it’s kinda like a geek digital-flage. trehip.
assumetehposition

You know if you tape your enter key down you get the same results after about 45 minutes?