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Post by ianphillips on Jan 30, 2017 20:09:52 GMT
So recently (Don't get excited by this) I found a website containing every single missing frame of Doctor Who, including those from the original cut of Planet of Giant and the original version of the Daleks episode 1. The trouble is finding said missing frames. babelia.libraryofbabel.info/imagesearch.htmlThis website contains every possible image in the universe. The knowledge that somewhere among the 1e+961755 images on this website is every single missing frame from every single missing episode of every single missing show in the world is fascinating. We'd never find them, of course, but that doesn't change the fact. |
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Post by thomgray on Jan 30, 2017 20:50:40 GMT
What?
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Post by Kev Hunter on Jan 30, 2017 22:22:59 GMT
Phew... it's not just me that was baffled then!  |
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Post by johnbarbour on Jan 30, 2017 22:32:08 GMT
All we have to do now is locate the Tower of Babel which is in Babylon ... The legendary tower was supposed to be so high that it reached Heaven and somehow that seems appropriate because if it does hold all missing episodes then it would truly be our TV heaven!
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Jan 30, 2017 22:55:49 GMT
So recently (Don't get excited by this) I found a website containing every single missing frame of Doctor Who, including those from the original cut of Planet of Giant and the original version of the Daleks episode 1. The trouble is finding said missing frames. babelia.libraryofbabel.info/imagesearch.htmlThis website contains every possible image in the universe. The knowledge that somewhere among the 1e+961755 images on this website is every single missing frame from every single missing episode of every single missing show in the world is fascinating. We'd never find them, of course, but that doesn't change the fact. That sounds as nutty as a fruit cake! |
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Post by Kev Hunter on Jan 30, 2017 23:06:52 GMT
I think someone has a wee bit of spare time on their hands..!
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Post by ianphillips on Jan 31, 2017 1:29:44 GMT
Basically, someone created a website with an algorithm that indefinitely generates random combinations of pixel colors.
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Post by Kev Hunter on Jan 31, 2017 9:07:57 GMT
Dr. Sheldon Cooper.. is that you?!
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Post by williammcgregor on Jan 31, 2017 9:57:32 GMT
Any Francie & Josie episodes in there?
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Post by scotttelfer on Jan 31, 2017 11:53:28 GMT
This has come up a few times before. In short, you are more likely to find a never before seen episode of Doctor Who starring Dec from Ant and Dec as The Terrible Zodin than find a missing episode.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2017 12:16:57 GMT
So recently (Don't get excited by this) I found a website containing every single missing frame of Doctor Who, including those from the original cut of Planet of Giant and the original version of the Daleks episode 1. The trouble is finding said missing frames. babelia.libraryofbabel.info/imagesearch.htmlThis website contains every possible image in the universe. The knowledge that somewhere among the 1e+961755 images on this website is every single missing frame from every single missing episode of every single missing show in the world is fascinating. We'd never find them, of course, but that doesn't change the fact. Please, Ian, could you start to explain this again from the beginning, and in layman's terms? I'm sorry, but it's been quite a week with Capaldi stepping down, Donald Trump repeatedly refusing to do the same, and the reality-shattering news that what we see in 3-Dimensions on earth and in the universe may in fact only be a holographic illusion. And to think it's only Tuesday... |
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Post by ianphillips on Jan 31, 2017 14:55:59 GMT
Here, I'll just put up the description on the website.
The Babel Image Archives are an application of the principle underlying Jorge Luis Borges' “The Library Of Babel” to the visual world. Borges' short story, the inspiration for libraryofbabel.info, describes a universal library containing every possible permutation of 410 pages of letters, thus everything that ever has been or ever could be written. Instead of letters and punctuation marks, the Image Archives permute the 4096 colors, and rather than a page of 40 lines each with 80 characters, the images are pixel grids with 416 rows and 640 columns. It contains every image that ever has been or could be created with this color palette in these dimensions, including portraits of every person who ever lived at every moment in their life, digitized versions of every work of art ever created, even those lost to history, as well as every work of art which ever could be created, and photographs of your own birth, wedding, and funeral. It contains 4096266240 (~10961755) unique images.
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Post by Richard Tipple on Jan 31, 2017 16:13:27 GMT
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Post by cjones on Jan 31, 2017 16:45:45 GMT
I almost spat out my breakfast cereal! Well played, sir!
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Post by stephenwit1 on Jan 31, 2017 19:16:27 GMT
Still don't know this works. At least someone got it right.
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