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XKCD Gardens
« on: April 06, 2016, 06:31:51 PM »
Has anyone else started one?

Basically XKCD 1663 is a little game where you can set lights, their angles and temperatures, and look at what grows beneath them (though you have to leave it quite a while before items start appearing). You can then save a link and check back on it at another time :)

I've made a shared Exilian one here, so feel free to go muck around with it or observe what we've grown so far:
http://xkcd.com/1663/#2c856722-fc1d-11e5-8001-42010a8e000c
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Re: XKCD Gardens
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2016, 11:09:06 AM »
I came across this thread, somewhat randomly, and decided to have a look at what was happening eight months on. We have some cacti (saguaro?) and vaguely wombat-like things, a duck in a birdbath with a dead tree (?), and some XKCD people.

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Re: XKCD Gardens
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2016, 02:42:38 PM »
I think those are meant to be tortoises, though I may be wrong...
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Re: XKCD Gardens
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2016, 05:43:13 PM »
That's more plausible, given the presumably desert conditions, though it's hard to tell from the roughly ovoid silhouettes with little sticking-out bits.

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Re: XKCD Gardens
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2017, 05:20:51 PM »
I can't seem to edit the old garden any more.

I've made a new one with more temperate lighting here: http://xkcd.com/1663/#12632382-dcd9-11e6-8001-42010a8e000a
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Re: XKCD Gardens
« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2017, 10:13:04 PM »
Oh wow, I've never seen this before but it looks really really cool

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Re: XKCD Gardens
« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2017, 10:05:34 PM »
I'm not sure these are working properly any more, the last ones I did don't seem to have grown at all. :/ Was a cool concept though.
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