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I built a website where people can "tattoo" the Earth, one pixel at a time
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earth-tattoo
3 months ago
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cadmeup
3 months ago
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Cool idea. So you only draw on a small little part, how does that work?
earth-tattoo
3 months ago
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Yes, so basically the earth is divided into almost 510 million "blocks" or "tiles". You can "claim" one block every hour. Or you can pay to buy one block for $1.
earth-tattoo
3 months ago
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Oh and by the way, each tile is 16x16 pixels
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