Donkey Kong Recreated Using 6,400 Post-it Notes

NickFitz writes "Students at UCSC have recreated the first level of Donkey Kong using 6,400 Post-it notes stuck to the windows of the E2 building. It took a team of about 10 people five hours to complete the work, which will remain in place until May 1. There's a time-lapse video of the construction process."

Re:Did they do this before?

[mikesd81]

You mean this? [yikes.com]

Re:Wow.

[The Anarchist Avenge]

Do you actually have any idea what an old-growth forest looks like and how an an old-growth forest ecosystem works? Because if you did, you'd know that old growth forests have ecosystems that are far more diverse than monocultures. Also, monocultures require far more energy to keep healthy(gasoline + foresters time + spraying) than mixed vegitation(none).

game vs. art resolution

[xPsi]

I believe the orginal Donkey Kong had a screen resolution of 224 x 256 pixels. I don't think the art quite matches that resolution (with a 3" x 3" post-it covering 4 floors, you would need 16-foot floors to obtain the same effective vertical resolution). To be fair, they condensed the first level a bit on the top (the girl used to be on a raised platform, no?), so they are looking at fewer vertical pixels in the game -- and those do look like pretty tall floors...

[sigh] I'm saddened that I even bothered to think about this...

MOD PARENT UP

[Deef]

There is a huge difference between an old-growth forest and the ones that the forest industry plants to replace them. Basically, the forest industry removes almost all of the plants and wildlife that are not the single tree species that they are trying to harvest, not to mention the many species that rely on living in or around dead and rotting trees (which are, of course, unprofitable to keep around since they make logging more difficult). What they forest industry leaves behind when it clearcuts an area is more like a park -- as close to antiseptic as a forest can be, with uniform trees of the same species, relatively evenly spaced, and with nearly all of the underbrush cleared out. The "normal" ecosystem of most of these areas has been effectively destroyed and replaced with a monoculture.

As a result, one disease, predator species or parasite that targets that single species of tree can wreak amazing amount of havoc. I vividly remember the Pine Bark Beetle infestation of lodgepole pines in central Oregon about twenty years ago -- there were dead and dying trees as far as the eye could see, and in many areas, about one tree in ten survived. You can imagine how much of a fire risk all of those dead pines were, in the middle of a high, dry desert that was somewhat known for frequent thunderstorms. Even today, there are still huge areas that were formerly heavily forested where there is now approximately one tree left standing every hundred feet as a result of this massive infestation.

The grandparent post seems to be implying that the forests maintained by the forest industry are in some way an equivalent replacement for the ones that grow naturally. This is very much not the case.

Re:I've Never Felt This Way Before.

[Andrew Kismet]

He threw two types of barrel. The blue barrels were filled with oil, and would turn into little fire characters when they hit the fire barrel at the start of the course. The fire would then chase Mario/Jumpman up.

Re:I've Never Felt This Way Before.

[BasilBrush]

You had me believing you for a moment. But actually DK never throws fire, he throws barrels, some of which hit the oil fire at the bottom of the first screen and turn into fireballs.

Re:Remember ATHF?

[Kizor]

Before someone calls an only-in-America terrorist threat on an obvious video game recreation? Last year [wfmynews2.com], complete with the bomb squad you requested and a police chief telling the press [straight.com] how he's incredulous at the way instructions for making cardboard boxes are publicly available online.

Aren't you sorry you asked?

(Don't start fuming over this - instead, make some yourself. They're awesome.)

Re:warning: excessive nostalgia

[ari_j]

I try not to edit Wikipedia unless I have specific information. Right now all I remember is that I played Sargon III and that it had both a DOS version and an Apple II version in the same box. I can't even tell you with certainty what year that would have been.