Matrix

March 25, 2011 12:39 PM

Matrix Click on a square-you'll figure the rest out. Enjoyable for a Friday...
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies (20 comments total)

Looks to be the same as the subject of this post. Fun toy, though.
posted by jedicus at 12:41 PM on March 25, 2011

Second...on a double.
posted by hal_c_on at 12:44 PM on March 25, 2011

ARRG
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 12:44 PM on March 25, 2011

Very cool. But oh my heavens, does this ever spin up my laptop fan.
posted by ChrisR at 12:45 PM on March 25, 2011

I didn't see this the first time, so thanks regardless.
posted by shakespeherian at 12:52 PM on March 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

Reminds me of BallDroppings.
posted by MrMoonPie at 12:53 PM on March 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:54 PM on March 25, 2011 [5 favorites]

Oh wow, that was entertaining for a while. Didn't see it the first time around either Alia, so thanks.
posted by Inkoate at 12:54 PM on March 25, 2011

This thing is old as time itself.
posted by ReeMonster at 12:56 PM on March 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

Holy crap that just made my day.
posted by clarknova at 12:58 PM on March 25, 2011

Okay so I challenge anyone as foolish as myself to turn every square white and then try to turn them all grey again without going blind in the process.
posted by shakespeherian at 12:59 PM on March 25, 2011

Didn't see it the first time around either Alia, so thanks.

Yeah, "first" time.
posted by codacorolla at 1:03 PM on March 25, 2011

shakespeherian: "Okay so I challenge anyone as foolish as myself to turn every square white and then try to turn them all grey again without going blind in the process"

I found that once I had about 66% of the matrix full, the glowy effect stopped. It took a while to get it back again. That said, getting to that point was eye-hurty. Ow.
posted by ChrisR at 1:09 PM on March 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

Last comment.
posted by alby at 1:10 PM on March 25, 2011

alby is mistaken.
posted by MrMoonPie at 1:17 PM on March 25, 2011

Oh, sweet, you can click and drag to mark a bunch of squares without clicking a million times. Now I can blind myself more efficiently!
posted by pemberkins at 1:18 PM on March 25, 2011

Really enjoyed this one. I made some great overlapping tone patterns that sounded awesome.
posted by Four Flavors at 1:19 PM on March 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

I know that my monitor is a flat bit of plastic, but once i got more that about 3/4 of those cells white, there was a part of my hind brain screaming screaming that my monitor was going to explode...

Part of my really wants to see a mashup of this and conway game of life...
posted by sodium lights the horizon at 1:21 PM on March 25, 2011 [2 favorites]

See, how blind I've gone?

My mother always said using the Internet would do that. She was just wrong about how...
posted by sodium lights the horizon at 1:22 PM on March 25, 2011

This thing is old as time itself.

I was into this before time existed as a concept, so yes, I was into this before "before" even made sense.
posted by kmz at 1:27 PM on March 25, 2011